Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ikeboy 3537 days ago
That quickly leads to inconsistencies.

What's the probability of the earth going around some object bigger than it?

What's the probability of the earth going around something bigger than it that isn't the sun?

The answer to all 3 cannot all be 50/50.

1 comments

That's true, but if we assume the probabilities of "Earth orbits Sun" and "Sun orbits Earth" we still get the correct conditional probabilities under the condition "either the Sun orbits the Earth or the Earth orbits the Sun", and the ratio between the two conditional probabilities is the same as the ratio between the absolute probabilities. So we can still decide which hypothesis is better, and by how much.