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Richardface said:
No you're thinking of it wrongly

The question is what's you chance of randomly picking the right ANSWER. There are only 3 answers so 1/3.

If the question was what's your chance of picking the right ANSWER if you randomly pick 1 of the 4 SQUARES, then your solution space is a 1/2 chance of picking one and two 1/4 chance of picking one of three potential correct answers, which is a complicated solution but more than 25%.

The trick is the squares aren't the solution space, just a confusing way of displaying the solution space.
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Oh yay, I get to use the word filter.

You're retarded. It's a well known paradox.

Also I think anominous brought up Kurt Gödel (haha I got the umlaut fucker). Presumably he's referencing Gödel's incompleteness theorem as well as the book "Gödel Escher Bach" which has to do with self referential concepts like this, or what Hofstadter calls strange loops.

Legitimately one of the greatest books ever written. 10/10 would reccomend to anyone who isn't retarded.
 
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Anstiv said:
Oh yay, I get to use the word filter.

You're exceptional. It's a well known paradox.

Also I think anominous brought up Kurt Gödel (haha I got the umlaut fucker). Presumably he's referencing Gödel's incompleteness theorem as well as the book "Gödel Escher Bach" which has to do with self referential concepts like this, or what Hofstadter calls strange loops.

Legitimately one of the greatest books ever written. 10/10 would reccomend to anyone who isn't exceptional.
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Don't know about any philosophy wank buts its perfectly solveable with probability theory to the effect none of the answers make sense which is a pretty shitty low rent paradox, so respectfully disagree, but I still love you

To belabour the point: I put 3 orange, 6 blue, and 4 green m&ms in front of you. I say, I have one of a similar colour behind my back. If you pick a colour at random, what chance does it match the one behind my back? 1/3rd, the number of times I display the answers in front of you doesn't change the categorical number of answers, you sped
 

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Richardface said:
Don't know about any philosophy wank buts its perfectly solveable with probability theory to the effect none of the answers make sense which is a pretty shitty low rent paradox, so respectfully disagree, but I still love you

To belabour the point: I put 3 orange, 6 blue, and 4 green m&ms in front of you. I say, I have one of a similar colour behind my back. If you pick a colour at random, what chance does it match the one behind my back? 1/3rd, the number of times I display the answers in front of you doesn't change the categorical number of answers, you sped
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The true answer is another question.

Who gives a shit?

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