You are blind. You have a card with a # on it. You would like to figure out the #. You can ask only one person what the # is, but cannot expect them to be honest unless they are incentivized. Assume you have some sort of incentive at your disposal. How do you figure out the #?
False, because if they made up the #, after getting beaten up repeatedly even though they respond the same #, they will assume you still hurt them because you actually know that they gave you the wrong #.
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Your # is 3. You "begin by seriously hurting [me]", so I tell you it is 2. You beat me some more. I tell you it is 2. You beat me some more, I tell you it is 2. There is a solution which works even if the person you are asking knows your strategy.
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You're being disingenuous. I walk up to a man in the street, we are alone, I taze him, tie him up, then saw off his pinky, before asking him what's the #, threatening to saw off the rest of his hand if he lies. No sane person would respond a joke to "fuck with me"
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I'm not being disingenuous. I'm attempting to give you more context that didn't fit in the 240 character original post to make the question more interesting. Your solution doesn't work if the person knows you are blind/have no way of verifying the answer.
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But people do not make such rational decisions when facing severe pain and the prospect of more of it, they simply give the number.
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That's fine, but it's a less interesting question to me.
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It's more realistic, though. I feel like yours, like most game theory works best with NPCs and computer simulations
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Cutting off pinkies doesn't sound particularly practical to me, idk.
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how important is knowing the # to me
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