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Are two heads better than one?

https://eieio.games/blog/two-heads-arent-better-than-one/
56•evakhoury•6h ago

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millipede•1h ago
Why not unconditionally trust Bob?
zahlman•1h ago
You can, but trivially that strategy is also no better than unconditionally trusting Alice.
gweinberg•1h ago
Bob isn't giving you any actionable information. If Alice and Bob agree, you're more confident than you were before, but you're still going to be trusting Alice. If they disagree you're down to 50% confidence, but you still might as well trust Alice.
sambaumann•38m ago
I paused and wrote out all the probabilities and saw no way to improve beyond 80% - I scrolled down hoping to be proven wrong!
eieio•27m ago
(I'm the author)

I think there's an annoying thing where by saying "hey, here's this neat problem, what's the answer" I've made you much more likely to actually get the answer!

What I really wanted to do was transfer the experience of writing a simulation for a related problem, observing this result, assuming I had a bug in my code, and then being delighted when I did the math. But unfortunately I don't know how to transfer that experience over the internet :(

(to be clear, I'm totally happy you wrote out the probabilities and got it right! Just expressing something I was thinking about back when I wrote this blog)

layer8•18m ago
This gives me an idea of how to implement isEven() and isOdd() probabilistically.
pavon•14m ago
It depends on what you are doing with the guess. If it is just a question of how frequently you are right or wrong the second person doesn't help. But if you are, for example, betting on your guess the second person improves your odds of coming out ahead significantly, since you can put down a higher wager when they agree than when they disagree.

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72•LorenDB•59m ago•40 comments

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164•apitman•5h ago•34 comments

Are two heads better than one?

https://eieio.games/blog/two-heads-arent-better-than-one/
57•evakhoury•6h ago•7 comments

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178•jsheard•2h ago•93 comments

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