{"id":11,"date":"2006-08-03T10:26:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T14:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/2006\/08\/03\/more-on-the-two-envelope-thing\/"},"modified":"2006-08-12T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T15:54:50","slug":"more-on-the-two-envelope-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/2006\/08\/03\/more-on-the-two-envelope-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the two-envelope thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Chalmers (insane brilliant philosopher of mind in Austrailia) has apparently written not just <a href=\"http:\/\/consc.net\/papers\/envelope.html\">one paper on the two-envelope thing<\/a>, but  <a href=\"http:\/\/consc.net\/papers\/stpete.html\">two papers on the two envelope thing<\/a>!  (Cross-reference: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/2006\/07\/27\/how-to-make-people-crazy-with-probability\/\">How to make people crazy with probability<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I have it on good authority from my Mathematician Friend (TM) that the answer is that there&#8217;s no probability distribution on the real numbers. I suspect he wanted to add &#8220;so shut up about it already!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Chalmers (insane brilliant philosopher of mind in Austrailia) has apparently written not just one paper on the two-envelope thing, but two papers on the two envelope thing! (Cross-reference: How to make people crazy with probability.) I have it on good authority from my Mathematician Friend (TM) that the answer is that there&#8217;s no probability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paradoxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fluxions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}