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lackofcheese comments on Thought experiments on simplicity in logical probability - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Manfred 20 August 2014 05:25PM

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Comment author: lackofcheese 21 August 2014 04:21:25AM *  4 points [-]

I think you're confusing the complexity of the sentence with the complexity of what the sentence evaluates to. The sentence "0 * random_expression" is still roughly as complex as random_expression, even though it evaluates to 0.

Comment author: Manfred 21 August 2014 06:58:47PM 1 point [-]

Whoops, you're right.