Aren’t you circularly basing your code on your probabilities but then taking your priors from the code?
Yep, but that’s all the proof shows: the more concise your code, the stronger the inverse correlation between the probability of a state and the code length of that state.
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Aren’t you circularly basing your code on your probabilities but then taking your priors from the code?
Yep, but that’s all the proof shows: the more concise your code, the stronger the inverse correlation between the probability of a state and the code length of that state.