beoShaffer comments on What Evidence Filtered Evidence? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: beoShaffer 05 November 2012 08:29:29PM 1 point [-]

Since its a canonical (read most people will have seen it multiple times before) problem the article doesn't go into quite as much detail as it arguably should. Its a well known facet of the standard problem (explicitly stated in many formulations and strongly implied by the context in others) that Monty always opens an empty door that you didn't pick.