JoshuaZ comments on Bayes Slays Goodman's Grue - Less Wrong
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That's not completely satisfying in that one wants an induction scheme that assigns priors independent of linguistic accident. If one tries to make hypotheses simplicity depend on language then one quickly gets very complicated hypotheses being labeled as simple (e.g. "God").