Luke_A_Somers comments on The dangers of zero and one - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 15 January 2014 02:16:35PM 0 points [-]

No. If you'd only ever seen TAAGCC, period, you would NOT have any sort of license to completely rule out the possibility of anything else. Indeed, the probabilities should be nearly even with a little more weight given to that particular observation.

Applying the Sunrise formula seems appropriate here.