I read an interesting puzzle on Stephen Landsburg’s blog that generated a lot of disagreement. Stephen offered to bet anyone $15,000 that the average results of a computer simulation, run 1 million times, would be close to his solution’s prediction of the expected value.
Never mind—I had read this LW article but not the original Landsburg post it links to, and I was under the impression that it was about the St Petersburg paradox.
(Note to self: Never comment on [LINK]-type LW posts until I’ve at least skimmed the original article they’re based on, no matter how well I think I understand the summary on LW.)
Thoroughly discussed on MathOverflow awhile ago.
That doesn’t seem to be about the same thing.
In what way? Looks like the same problem to me.
Never mind—I had read this LW article but not the original Landsburg post it links to, and I was under the impression that it was about the St Petersburg paradox.
(Note to self: Never comment on [LINK]-type LW posts until I’ve at least skimmed the original article they’re based on, no matter how well I think I understand the summary on LW.)