Juergen Schmidhuber writes:
> But there is no uniform prior over all programs!
> Just like there is no uniform prior over the integers.
> To see this, just try to write one down.

I think there is.  Given a program of length l, the prior probability
is 2^(-l).  (That is 2 to the power of negative l.)  The length of a
program is defined by interpreting it using self-delimiting rules as
is customary in the AIT analysis of Greg Chaitin.

Hal Finney

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