{"id":407,"date":"2020-06-22T21:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T02:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2020-06-22T21:11:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T02:11:29","slug":"the-monty-hall-effect-thruster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/the-monty-hall-effect-thruster","title":{"rendered":"The Monty Hall Effect Thruster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you&#8217;re on a rocket ship, and you&#8217;re given the choice of three buttons: one button starts up your advanced MHE thrusters, but the other buttons explode the ship. You choose some button (say, number 1), and the rocket ship itself (which is a sentient AI), who knows what the buttons are connected to, chooses another button (say, number 3). It then says to you, &#8220;Do you want to choose button number 2?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is it to your advantage to switch your choice? Also, who designed this control panel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you&#8217;re on a rocket ship, and you&#8217;re given the choice of three buttons: one button starts up your advanced MHE thrusters, but the other buttons explode the ship. You choose some button (say, number 1), and the rocket ship itself (which is a sentient AI), who knows what the buttons are connected to, chooses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thought-experiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}