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Comment author: fubarobfusco 04 January 2012 10:06:07AM -1 points [-]

Sorry, maybe I misread. The line I quoted above seemed to suggest that "if the laws of nature were complicated," then we would be better off having priors that favored complicated beliefs over simple ones — or at least considered them equal — rather than an Occam prior which favors simple beliefs.

Comment author: prase 04 January 2012 02:01:06PM 0 points [-]

I have suggested that we would be better off having priors which favour the exact way of how the laws are complicated. Of course, a general complicated prior wouldn't do the job.