DanielLC comments on Open thread, Dec. 29, 2014 - Jan 04, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 01 January 2015 04:35:38AM 0 points [-]

You can have more to it than the complexity penalty, but you need a complexity penalty. The number of possibilities increases exponentially with the complexity. If the probability didn't go down faster, the total probability would be infinite. But that's impossible. It has to add to one.