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prase comments on The self-fooling problem. - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: PuyaSharif 10 October 2011 10:26PM

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Comment author: prase 11 October 2011 01:22:05PM 0 points [-]

There are places where the coin could be easily put but from where it's very hard to retrieve it. Flush it into the toilet, throw it in a narrow ventilation shaft... This would be better excluded to leave us with the essence of the problem.

Comment author: Prismattic 12 October 2011 01:05:34AM 2 points [-]

I posed the problem to people at work today, and someone suggested swallowing it, because it takes more than 24 hours to pass through the human digestive system.