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polymathwannabe comments on Open Thread August 31 - September 6 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 01 September 2015 04:26:00PM 2 points [-]

How about some variation on Bulls and Cows?

Comment author: evand 01 September 2015 04:47:51PM 0 points [-]

That seems like fertile ground for exploration, but no probability / agreement variation immediately springs to mind. Did you have something specific in mind?

Comment author: polymathwannabe 01 September 2015 06:38:23PM 0 points [-]

Have several people try to guess the same number, with everyone able to see everyone's guesses and results.

Comment author: evand 01 September 2015 06:42:07PM 0 points [-]

But then everyone has the exact some information, right? I'm specifically looking for something that's like Hal Finney's game, in that the different players have different information, and communicate some different set of information (some sort of knowledge about the state of the world, like their posteriors on the joint data).