Right ... except that's not true :) I actually found a great article today on lesswrong.com which puts things far more elegantly than I ever could, but fundamen

Right ... except that's not true :) I actually found a great article today on lesswrong.com which puts things far more elegantly than I ever could, but fundamentally you need to know something about how the values get into the envelope: http://lesswrong.com/lw/dy9/solving_the_two_envelopes_problem/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/dy9/solving_the_two_envelopes_proble... I've submitted this as a fresh link on HN now. Hopefully we see some lively discussion there :)