AdeleneDawner comments on Drawing Two Aces - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 03 January 2010 07:19:02PM 1 point [-]

I see what you're doing, but I still think you're making a mistake: Just because there are three possibilities, doesn't mean that those possibilities are equally likely. It's similar to flipping a fair coin twice; you could get two heads, two tails, or one of each. There are three possible outcomes, but the 'one of each' option is twice as likely as either of the other two.