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

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Comment author: AlephNeil 12 May 2010 06:24:22PM 0 points [-]

Variation Alpha is intended in such a way that, from the perspective of the experimenters, none of the ten subjects is 'special'.

See <a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/286/beauty_quips_id_shut_up_and_multiply/1zzh">here</a> for why 1/11 is the correct posterior probability for heads.