D_Malik comments on An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction - Less Wrong
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Say the coin falls HHTHTHH. Then the hypothesis that it will always fall heads has probability 0%, because they weren't all heads. Same for the hypothesis that it will always fall tails.
It seems like it would be pretty easy, though, to extend Solomonoff induction to have each hypothesis be an algorithm that outputs a probability distribution, and then update for each bit of evidence with Bayes's theorem. If we did that for this example, I think the hypothesis that generated the 25%:75% probability distribution would eventually win out.