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Comment by EbTech

I don't think frequentism is "bad"; just insufficient as a gold standard interpretation of probabilistic claims. I liked an analogy from the reference by Rathmanner & Hutter: the most "correct" chess-playing program involves a complete search along the tree of possible games. In practice, we try to approximate this ideal.

In the case of Kolmogorov complexity, a reasonable takeaway might be to use the shortest program that we're able to find, even if it's not the shortest overall.

parent EbTech 6 years ago

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