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It's a modestly interesting point, but it certainly doesn't make sense in the concept of pizza. The author tries to appeal to fairness, but where the fallback p
by HWR_14 5y ago
It's a modestly interesting point, but it certainly doesn't make sense in the concept of pizza. The author tries to appeal to fairness, but where the fallback positions are knowingly arranged randomly. Therefore, the naive 6-6 solution is just refusing to adjust for a superior random arrangement in the experiment, which was unfairly assigned. Therefore, I would expect the naive 6-6 to be chosen the plurality of them time.
There's also a question of if there is any value to clam pizza beyond the initial four slices. That sounds like a lot of food that reheats poorly.
Now, if you want to say this applies to something in the real world as a concept, I would say it's not a novel concept. No one expects a new employee to capture 100% of the value they add, nor do people expect the new employee to work for free.
- davidmanheim 5y agoAlso, why is any pizza ever getting cut into 12 slices?
- rootusrootus 5y agoAside from small pizzas, I generally cut pizzas into 12 pieces. 8 slices ends up with unwieldy slices, 16 makes for overly narrow ones. Cut it however you want, of course, but for most average sized pizzas 12 makes for a nice sized slice.
- NeoTar 5y agoThat’s very much a cultural thing. An average European pizza is more of a ‘personal’ pizza and 8 or 10 inches in diameter. Twelve slices would be too much. I propose the Imperial/English pizza theorem. The optimal number of slices for a pizza is equal to the size in inches.
- HWR_14 5y agoA giant pizza cut so that each slice is a full meal (maybe two if very hungry) is optimal.Eating a slice of pizza should be enough.
- hexane360 5y agoUnfortunately, that guarantees the arc length of the slice to be constant (at pi inches), but not the total area (= d * 1/2 in). I believe this is why larger pizzas make more sense to cut into squares, as long thin pieces are harder to slice and to eat.
- rootusrootus 5y agoYeah, that's my exclusion for small pizzas. We only do personal pizzas for the kids. The rest of the family shares a larger one (or two, or however many).