From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 31 1996 - 09:53:40 MST
> See if you can modify the game so that the majority of players are still
> in the last round, there is an "average number of players", and the
> number of players still increases by an integer factor in each round.
> I wasn't able to do it.
Chance of next round = 35/36, increase = 10 times. Series does not
converge.
Change of next round = 1/36, increase = 10 times. Series converges, but
now it terminates almost immediately.
Now the paradox is reversed; 90% of the players will see the last round,
but there's a 96% (?) chance that a given round will end.
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