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In the original, you know the other islanders can see a minimum of 98 BP (blue eyed people). And you know that they know that you know that they can see at leas
by awesomepantsm 11y ago
In the original, you know the other islanders can see a minimum of 98 BP (blue eyed people). And you know that they know that you know that they can see at least 97 BP.
Given that, the statement that there is at least 1 blue eyed person doesn't provide new info. The argument that this "synchronizes" them is a little strange. For all we knew, they were in the middle of counting to 100 days prior to this statement due to the aforementioned common knowledge that everyone already knew there were blue eyed people.
- alwaysmetara 11y agoThey wouldn't be counting to 100 days, because there's no point where everyone would start counting together (no one is allowed to reveal anything about eye color). So you know there's no reason for all the blue eyed people to commit suicide together, so you can't reason anything out about the total number of blue eyed people.
- awesomepantsm 11y agoAs per a comment in the original article, they could choose to "sync" when one of their children is first told the rules about not knowing your own eye color. This changes the way that person would behave, and is a completely reasonable time for each islander to reevaluate the logical cascade.
- jack9 11y ago> they could choose to "sync" They can't discuss it. That would be a difficult social experiment, that would risk your life.