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I think this post is making the mistake of allowing the hypothesis to be non-total. Definition: a total hypothesis explains everything, it's a universe-predicting machine and equivalent to "the laws of physics". A non-total hypothesis is like an unspecified total hypothesis with a piece of hypothesis tacked on. Neither what it does, nor any meaningful understanding of its length, can be derived without specifying what it's to be attached to.