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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 14 September, 2022 4:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> spike@rainier66.com<br><b>Subject:</b> paradox perhaps<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…While climbing in the Sierras this week a fun thought experiment occurred to me…If you started to leave, but then reconsidered, turned back, signed the book, would your estimate of frequency of visit revert to 10 days?...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So here’s the follow-on question.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You rig up a device to reset to zero if someone visits the peak. Never mind log box, just a motion detector which will reset to zero if a person comes to the peak. Tomorrow it will read 1 if no one comes, 2 the day after, etc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now imagine the device can send its data to a remote site and you have sensors on all the local peaks, telling you how long since the last visit.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You could go up to the peak, read the device, which says 10 days, before it resets to zero from your being there. Or you could look up the sensor on the remote site and see that a particular sensor reads 10 days, but of course it would not reset because you are not there physically to read the device.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the first instance, you might estimate the span between visits at about 10 days, or about 36 visits a year, but in the second case, you might estimate about 20 days between visits to the peak, since it has already been 10 days and no one is around. So… your physical presence has messed up the observation. But is it that the device enabled you to get the data without being present, so the 20 day estimate is messed up?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>