RobinZ comments on Beauty quips, "I'd shut up and multiply!" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinZ 10 May 2010 07:15:33PM 0 points [-]

Or they all should be 1/2.

Comment author: timtyler 10 May 2010 07:49:57PM 1 point [-]

Impossible - if they are to add up to 1.

Comment author: RobinZ 10 May 2010 08:44:31PM 0 points [-]

For Jack's bookie, I agree, you have to use 1/3 – but if you want to calculate a distribution on how much cash Beauty has after the experiment given different betting behavior, it no longer works to treat Monday and Tuesday as mutually exclusive.