I thought of it like this: Well, I wouldn’t even pay one trillion dollars, so surely I wouldn’t pay $(3^^^3/100). Given that paying $(3^^^3/100) is the logical consequence of choosing “torture” in “torture vs. shampoo”, I clearly must not pick “torture”.
Yeah, I did arrive at something similar after a moment’s thought, but an example that the reader needs to explicitly transform into a different one (“okay, that number makes no sense, but the same logic applies to smaller numbers that do make sense”) isn’t a very good example.
I think I tend to do things like that automatically, so it wasn’t a problem for me. But I can see why that would be a problem to other people who think differently, so I agree with you.
I thought of it like this: Well, I wouldn’t even pay one trillion dollars, so surely I wouldn’t pay $(3^^^3/100). Given that paying $(3^^^3/100) is the logical consequence of choosing “torture” in “torture vs. shampoo”, I clearly must not pick “torture”.
Yeah, I did arrive at something similar after a moment’s thought, but an example that the reader needs to explicitly transform into a different one (“okay, that number makes no sense, but the same logic applies to smaller numbers that do make sense”) isn’t a very good example.
I think I tend to do things like that automatically, so it wasn’t a problem for me. But I can see why that would be a problem to other people who think differently, so I agree with you.