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Suppose the protocol exists. It's not "gambling cheating" at all, it's not even "gambling", rather following some general methodological guidelines from quantum
by spacetimeuser5 2y ago
Suppose the protocol exists. It's not "gambling cheating" at all, it's not even "gambling", rather following some general methodological guidelines from quantum mechanics (least but not last). The question is to get enough subjects willing to replicate it.
- PaulHoule 2y agoThere's a close tie between card and coin magic and techniques of gambling cheating. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scarne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scarne There are numerous techniques to throw dice with controlled rotation so you can be sure that one side will wind up on top or that a particular axis stays horizontal so you know two sides will never come up. This is why playing craps you have to bounce the dice off a wall. It is possible sometime to throw non-spinning dice right into the corner of the wall and the floor but if you succeed at that you will never play craps with those people. I think your problem is really close to that problem, I don't think there's anything wrong with card mechanics and such, it's using it to cheat that is wrong.
- spacetimeuser5 2y agoI'd focus on coins only. There was a link on HN about some pilot study by some students, where they tried to emulate or used an actual mechanical hand or something similar flipping coins. How? (though not in my protocol) For example, attaching a magnetic levitation system under the surface with the flipper unaware of it, and upon switching the current on through the system, the coin levitates probably on its edge. And it is a problem for the flippers and inference makers for not being able to arrange for such option.