Will_Newsome comments on Open Problems Related to Solomonoff Induction - Less Wrong
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Mentioning it anywhere except algorithmic information theory is a sign of confusion. This includes theology and parapsychology. Use just Bayes or, if you want to be all fancy, updateless-like decision theories. I love algorithmic probability to death but it's just not something you should use casually. Too many pitfalls.
Bayes requires a prior.
No one should ever need to discuss "priors". Focus on the likelihood ratio.
...but that's like comparing apples and cheese!