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SolaCatella
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06 Jun 2006, 8:08 am

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Hey, who says it's Christianity that got it right? For all we know, after we die we go to the banks of the Styx and need cash to pay the ferryman, or have our hearts weighed against the Feather of Truth. That, IMO, is one of the biggest flaws in Pascal's Wager.


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06 Jun 2006, 3:38 pm

It's also called the Monty Hall problem.



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13 Jun 2006, 3:22 pm

Isn't that the one with two doors; behind one is a car and behind the other a crowd of murderous chimpanzees...?


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13 Jun 2006, 7:43 pm

DrizzleMan wrote:
Isn't that the one with two doors; behind one is a car and behind the other a crowd of murderous chimpanzees...?
I think it goes something like that. It is a guessing problem. I think that it has 3 doors but the guy tells you what is behind the first one. It is an interesting problem. I don't think this is exactly the monty hall problem due to the lack of a 3rd option starting off though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_hall_problem