lackofcheese comments on Thought experiments on simplicity in logical probability - Less Wrong Discussion
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A useful point of contrast is the idea of a normal number, as pi and e are widely believed to be. The crucial difference is that normal-ness requires the asymptotic frequencies to be the same for all strings of the same length, which is very different to the criterion I mentioned above.