cousin_it comments on Drawing Two Aces - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 January 2010 10:33AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 03 January 2010 12:04:21PM *  7 points [-]

I reached the same solution.

This looks like a riff on the Monty Hall problem, whose solution also hinges on the fact that the host opens a door randomly or non-randomly depending on your initial choice.

Comment author: MatthewB 03 January 2010 12:41:24PM 0 points [-]

This is exactly what I thought when I read the problem.