paper-machine comments on Open thread, September 2-8, 2013 - Less Wrong
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I am seeking a mathematical construct to use as a logical coin for the purpose of making hypothetical decision theory problems slightly more aesthetically pleasing. The required features are:
NP-complete problems have many of the desired features but I don't know off the top of my head any that can be used as indexable fair coin.
Can anyone suggest some candidates?
No candidates, but I'd like to point out that your unbiased requirement may perhaps be omitted, conditional on the implementation.
If you have a biased logical coin, you poll the coin twice until the results differ, and then you pick the last result when they do differ. That results in an unbiased logical coin.
My first instinct is to bet on properties of random graphs, but that's not my field.
That'd work. I like it!