Pick red you live, guaranteed.
If half or more pick blue everyone lives,
under half and blue pickers all die!
Which button do you choose?
I don't know, I say, Let me think—
A machine predicted your choice.
It has yet to be wrong.
Box B is empty if the machine thinks you're greedy.
You're a millionaire if it thinks otherwise.
Are you taking one, or both?
Where did the machine get this money?
You see three doors and make a guess
Monty Hall opens one with a goat
Care to change your guess?
Win a car or find another goat?
Umm
There's a trolley and two tracks—
Fed up I ask,
Will you put away the shopping cart?
Social media had quit a few of these rationalist problems floating around this week. I decided to have some fun and write a poem referencing the themes.
We start with the question that took over this week, the Red vs. Blue button problem,then Newcomb’s Problem, which has a good video discussion. Some classics; the Monty Hall problem and the trolley problem before finally closing with the only one you will ever encounter in real life, the shopping cart problem.
