…up until now, I actually thought that we were friends. I guess all those deep meaningful convos we had whilst playing Burnout2 and drinking diet Dr Pepper meant nothing to you…
I’m just imagining a Usual Suspects type reveal where JarJar straightens his slouch, combs back his ears, looks Obi-Wan dead in the eye, and says: “You’re in quite the pickle now, old chap.”
There’s an addendum to the theory where essentially you keep walking through worlds forever, quantum erasure style, never dying from your perspective, merely getting older and older.
Thing is, if this was actually true, we would see old people everywhere (as observers of their non-erasure).
If you’ve never seen an woman’s Angus at the gym, strolling through the aisles of the local Netto to clown the cheapest brew known to man… then I don’t know what to tell you
Everyone tosses three coins, and posts it in the chat
If a player tosses three of the same, they have to toss again.
Everyone chooses the mode coin from their neighbour, and adds it to their stack
Each player, with 3+N coins, picks the mode coin in their own collection.
Ideally: the player’s own bias, is outweighed by the other player’s biases.
The final coin is the mode of all players coins.
spoilerfrom numpy import median from pprint import pprint players = {“p1” : [1,0,1], ## playing fair “p2” : [0,0,1], ## cheating “p3” : [1,1,0], ## cheating “p4” : [1,1,0], ## cheating “p5” : [0,0,1]} ## playing fair print(“Initial rolls:”) pprint(players) get_mode_coin = lambda x: int(median(x)) get_all_mode_coins = lambda x: [get_mode_coin(y) for y in x] for play in players: ## Players add the mode coin from their neigbours players[play] = players[play] + get_all_mode_coins(players.values()) print(“First picks:”) pprint(players) for play in players: ## Players collapse their collections to mode players[play] = [get_mode_coin(players[play])] print(“Last modes:”, players) print(“Final choice:”, get_mode_coin([x for x in players.values()]))
Which as you can see, is no better than simply picking the median coin from the initial rolls. I thank you for wasting your time.
Only telling people my height in cm from now on
What did you buy that improved your life?
What is the most unhinged conspiracy theory?
Dreaming of a more egalitarian world (lemmy.world)
Indian Food is praised worldwide and celebrated in countries like the UK and Germany. Americans, why do all your comedy shows rag on Indian food?
So if I'm having a conversation, and the other person is wiping their nose a lot, does that mean they think THEIR nose is dirty, or that they're trying to tell me MY nose is dirty?
[Resolved] Is anybody else having issues with DuckDuckGo and StartPage? (slrpnk.net)
screenshot of searching “test” in start page that doesn’t return any results...
The market will for sure solve this (slrpnk.net)
Is it possible for devices on an online group chat to toss a coin without trusting each other and the server?