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

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Comment author: lackofcheese 22 August 2014 01:49:05AM *  1 point [-]

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.