Re:A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green."
by LargeWu on Monday December 09, 2024 @04:11PM
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well, they are part of the original, canonical problem. it's not the original problem's fault if re-tellers omit key information.
Re:A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green."
by foxglacier on Monday December 09, 2024 @04:35PM
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They're not. It says he "opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat". That could mean he deliberately chose a door with a goat or he chose one by some unstated process and it happened to have a goat by chance. It says he "knows what's behind the doors" but that statement means nothing because it doesn't say how he uses that knowledge, if at all. It's full of language ambiguity.
Re:A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green."
by 8note on Monday December 09, 2024 @02:53PM
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the assumption is told to you in that the game is expected to continue after monty opens a door. if he could open the prize door, the game would describe what happens when he does that
Re:A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green."
by btilly on Monday December 09, 2024 @03:12PM
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No. That condition holds in all three of the scenarios that I stated. And yet you have 3 different answers. Switching 2/3 win, 1/2 win, and 0/1 win respectively.
You specifically need information that we haven't been given about the counterfactuals. What might Monty have done in other scenarios that we have not yet observed? We don't know. And we're not actually told. That makes that an implicit assumption that wasn't specified.
You can't just sneak in the assumptions. You have to state them somewhere.