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thomblake comments on Probability puzzle - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: malthrin 28 November 2011 09:33PM

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Comment author: thomblake 29 November 2011 01:11:31AM 1 point [-]

Ah, I get it now. N is stated ahead of time, but you can (predictably) use the information so far to "stop playing" whenever you want, and that's part of the optimal strategy to consider in the expectation.