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Unless you have some reason to believe H1 over H2 (or vice versa), stop wasting time pondering whether to throw quarters in the street. Introducing spurious infinities that just cancel out doesn't help you reason any.
Or, in other words, a belief is only useful if you have evidence to support it over a belief in the opposite direction.