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entirelyuseless comments on New Philosophical Work on Solomonoff Induction - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: vallinder 27 September 2016 11:12AM

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Comment author: ImmortalRationalist 29 September 2016 08:20:27PM 0 points [-]

But in the infinite series of possibilities summing to 1, why should the hypotheses with the highest probability be the ones with the lowest complexity, as opposed to having each consecutive hypothesis having an arbitrary complexity level?

Comment author: entirelyuseless 30 September 2016 02:22:56AM 0 points [-]

gjm's explanation is correct.