trist comments on A Story of Kings and Spies - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Joshua_Blaine 11 June 2014 11:54PM

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Comment author: trist 12 June 2014 08:32:11PM -1 points [-]

The king was proposing that Orin bet 1kc, of which they only have 800c currently, in order to receive 20kc (which is twenty five times their net worth). The 200c debt was what Orin would be reduced to if they were wrong.

Comment author: Slider 13 June 2014 08:19:01PM 0 points [-]

Yes, that is an oversight. I guess I automatically assumed that money not currently available could end up as incurably lost.