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Comment author: RichardKennaway 30 July 2013 10:42:14PM 0 points [-]

Naturally, Eliezer has already thought of this, and wrote about it in Occam's Razor:

It seems to completely answer your question. That is, one can think about probabilities and formulate and test probabilistic hypotheses, without needing to generate any random numbers.