<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Quite. The problem is, not all players will follow any given<br>strategy. You know some people will do the<br>lightning-strikes-twice strat, just like some will do the<br>simple-numbers strat (111, 123, etc.) - but the<br>simple-numbers will likely draw a disproportionate number<br>of plays, just because those who follow it need spread<br>their bets across fewer numbers.<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 6/30/10, Gregory Jones <i><spike66@att.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Gregory Jones <spike66@att.net><br>Subject: Re: [ExI] alternative gambling game, plus epsilon<br>To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 6:33 PM<br><br><div id="yiv489887970"><table border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top"><div><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 6/30/10, Gregory Jones <i><spike66@att.net></i></b> wrote:</div>
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<div>>>... (Likewise, the last<br>winning number would likely be something to avoid, for the reason<br>you stated.)... Adrian</div>
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<div>Ja, but of course if the others followed this line of reasoning, then a fewer than average number of players would choose the last winning number, which would increase its probability of being the least-chosen, and thus become a repeat winner. But if other players followed this line of meta-reasoning, they might intentionally buy that number, reducing its chances of becoming a repeat winner...spike</div>
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<div>If even 40% of the players followed the lightning-never-strikes-twice philosophy, then one's chances of winning are increased to about 29% by buying last round's winner. However, if even a half of a percent of the players do the same calculus I just did, they compensate for the others and the chances of winning with that number drop to below nominal. {8-]</div>
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