POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Miracle products : Re: Miracle products Server Time
5 Sep 2024 05:25:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Miracle products  
From: somebody
Date: 27 Nov 2009 18:06:40
Message: <4b105b80$1@news.povray.org>
"Sabrina Kilian" <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote in message
news:4b101e6d$1@news.povray.org...

> Wait, first you set up the hypothetical lottery and, when I propose that
> it would be profitable to the people playing, you then argue that the
> setup you provided was flawed because no one would ever offer it?

No, I'm saying no one in his right mind should *play* it.

I know *offering* is sometimes proposed as a solution to the St Petersburg
paradox, but that's a red herring and not the correct "solution".


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