gjm comments on The ganch gamble - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Romashka 18 May 2015 06:43PM

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Comment author: gjm 19 May 2015 08:58:00AM 4 points [-]

It's worse than that; it doesn't work at all. To give the impression of an exact copy of the other side's ornamentation you'd need a mirror across the middle of the room. But I take it the literal meaning of the story is not really the point and it's not very important that it wouldn't work in real life.