Fuck those boxes and the game. Steal the computer. Any computer that can predict individual human behavior with 99% accuracy would be worth billions. If such a thing existed and could be controlled, it’d be a total waste running grad school human lab experiments.

I agree with you, but in context.

Meaning, ask me for my superpower and what I’d do with it, sure!

But this channel makes really good science-focused content. So to present this video, which essentially requires an all knowing god-like entity, then try and break down the game theory and probabilities, just seems odd and out of their lane a bit.

The money is the the less interesting bit, the belief in God and outcome is the more interesting one.

If you believe the god bit and play the game:

Take box A&B, get $1.001M: you fooled god, there is free will. Or you are the lucky 1% god can’t predict.

Take box A&B, get $1000: you did not fool god, there is no free will.

Take box B, get $1M: you did not fool god, there is no free will.

Take box B, get $0: you fooled god, there is free will. Or you are the lucky 1% god can’t predict.

If you don’t believe the god bit, then this is just some sort of con man swindle and you are only getting a max $1000 anyway.

So I sorta view this whole thing as religious philosophy, which is why it feels weird on a science channel.

Underestimated is a weird way to say didn’t consider.

This was a pretty good video, but the supercomputer setup made me kind of meh on it compared to most of the channel’s videos.

It isn’t really a “problem” in my mind because no such computer can or does exist (one that can predict your decision with 99% accuracy). And they hand wave away what the computer might be doing or collecting to make that decision prior to you even knowing what the problem is going to be. I don’t think you can just hand wave that away.

So that “hypothetical supercomputer” is more like an “impossible supercomputer” which ruins this as a thought experiment part of this for me. It’s like saying all-knowing sky fairy/god/budda has made a prediction about your decision, what would you do?

Well, I’d say I don’t believe in the sky fairy/god/budda and need evidence about the 99% success rate before proceeding.

Speed of light is a constant. For everyone. Because it’s linked to time, which is part of 3D space.

Let’s say you are standing still. Shoot a laser straight out in front of you. Measure the speed, you get c, the speed of light.

Now, start running forward at 10 mph. Shoot the laser again. Measure the speed. You still get c. Not c - 10, but exactly c.

Run backwards shoot laser out in front of you. Still exactly c.

Because your personal time/clock has changed by moving so that you end up measuring the speed of light the same.

Anyone looking at you, regardless of their relative motion to you will also measure your laser at c.

It’s just how the universe is.

Also, speed of light isn’t really the best term. More like maximum speed of the universe. Light just happens to travel at that speed because it has no mass. Everything with no mass travels at that speed.

I don’t think space has any fixed points, regardless of the methods one uses to try and discover one. Everything is relative motion and relative acceleration for two or more objects.

Sex-ass had an incredible day. Excited to watch him sell develop as a racer in the coming years.

Too bad the win and winning method was predictable.

We know. We know he lied. His mouth was open and sounds were coming out.

Thanks for the confirmation.

Maybe those are the most flattering head shots…