Heh, this sounds half like how probability theory was invented.
The problem of points goes like this: Two doctors are playing some simple game of chance, when suddenly a pager goes off and the players are desperately needed at a hospital. How do they divvy up the stakes?
Expected value is obvious enough now that kid me was fluent in it, but seemingly it took geniuses thinking about games to come up with. Feels surreal to read about, given how the entire discussion seems so trivial! Hindsight bias really is a bitch, huh?
Heh, this sounds half like how probability theory was invented.
The problem of points goes like this: Two doctors are playing some simple game of chance, when suddenly a pager goes off and the players are desperately needed at a hospital. How do they divvy up the stakes?
Expected value is obvious enough now that kid me was fluent in it, but seemingly it took geniuses thinking about games to come up with. Feels surreal to read about, given how the entire discussion seems so trivial! Hindsight bias really is a bitch, huh?