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If I try to keep in mind that the target audience is children, then the paragraph just before The Jealous Reporter is where I feel the clarity in prose really s
by metaphor 10y ago
If I try to keep in mind that the target audience is children, then the paragraph just before The Jealous Reporter is where I feel the clarity in prose really starts to fall apart. Introducing the concept of probability without really explaining its significance...or the notion of something being genuine...all this random court mumbo jumbo...simulation and parallel stuff...filming high-rise apartments with caves stuffed in them to achieve something that may not be optimal...even dropped authentication somewhere in there.
Really? I'm honestly surprised Alice and Bob didn't somehow find their way into this plot...or was that Paul and Carole.
- Bartweiss 10y agoYeah... We eventually hit "Do we have no conveyance of knowledge when you cannot simulate with successive attempts?" Which is not what I generally class as children's-story language. But the statistical argument is even harder - accepting that a low enough probability (more accurately, p value) implies a non-random source of a phenomenon is not obvious. I suspect that the initial usage would be ok, where Ali Baba says he didn't guess wrong 40 times. But the coin flip idea with Mick isn't intuitive and isn't really explained. The lead-in is interesting, and it's a clever story, but it lost the plot on target audience pretty badly.