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Reminds me of a joke Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender says "what'll it be, three beers?" The first logician says "I don't know". The second logic
by Rebelgecko 3y ago
Reminds me of a joke
Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender says "what'll it be, three beers?" The first logician says "I don't know". The second logician says "I don't know". The third logician says "Yes".
- withinboredom 3y agoAnd the human bartender passes the check to the third logician.
- readyplayernull 3y agoThe third logician never finishes his beer, his friends get more free beers. The bar overflows.
- dylan604 3y agoHow much would that exploit be worth on the open market?
- withinboredom 3y agoIt's one you keep to yourself and your friends. Otherwise, it will get fixed up.
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- mgsouth 3y agoIf, like me, you didn't get the joke at first: Both of the first two logicians wanted a beer; otherwise they would know the answer was "no". The third logician recognizes this, and therefore knows the answer.
- KptMarchewa 3y agoUnless one of those wanted two beers. Or 0.5 beer. Or -1 beers. Or 1e9 beers. Or 2147483648 beers.
- prepend 3y agoHe didn’t know perfectly, but he knew with great enough probability to place an order. In the very small chance that someone wanted two beers, someone would speak up. This way is logically most efficient to work and involve the least communication.
- t0astbread 3y agoHopefully no one asks where the bathroom is.
- barfingclouds 3y agoYou’re referencing the wrong joke
- KptMarchewa 3y agoRight.
- bkirkby 3y agowhy is it three logicians? wouldn't it work with just two?
- adw 3y ago[Three is always funnier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)).
- douglaskayama 3y agoThree is a magic number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rdhqAZSRDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rdhqAZSRDc
- robertlagrant 3y agoThat sounds like my old neighbour, a professor of logic from the university of science.
- SoftTalker 3y agoI've heard tell of the place. By chance, did he have a doghouse?
- bigiain 3y agoFound the QA engineer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25851770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25851770
- 3pt14159 3y agoI do love a good joke, but this one falls a bit flat. Logically speaking, the second bar tender could have thought to himself "no I don't want any beer, but one of these two other guys may want to double fist" and so there is really no way for the third logician to answer in the affirmative.