pedanterrific comments on Apply your knowledge: pick half a number - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Eneasz 04 October 2011 04:49PM

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Comment author: pedanterrific 04 October 2011 09:38:23PM *  0 points [-]

This thought did occur to me, yes. But I figured the "rational" choice - which is not actually rational, since it's predictably not going to win - of zero was doomed anyway, so chose 1 rather than guarantee a loss with 100 for no purpose.

Edit: Oh. There's nothing preventing you from voting multiple times. Hmm... in that case 49 is probably the best bet.