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Comment author: JoshuaZ 10 May 2012 03:29:54AM 0 points [-]

the point that Occam's Razor applies to code not RAM (so to speak).

This is true only if you are using some variant of a Kolmogorov prior. Many ways of dealing with Pascal's mugging try to use other priors. Moreover, this will be not true in general for any computable prior.