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Mariana Trench's avatar

My husband is a lawyer, and among other things, I've been a librarian and a nonprofit employee. I think sometimes people underestimate how much of lawyer, library, and nonprofit jobs are hand-holding. My husband could have a 10-minute phone call with a client telling them precisely how to fire an employee without breaking any laws, but instead he spends 90 (billable!) minutes on the call soothing them and reassuring them that it will all be okay, and listening to stories about how terrible the employee was, and saying "Yes, yes, they sound terrible! You should fire them!". I have many similar stories about helping clients with research and spending much more time soothing them than providing facts.

I know AI can do that too. I wonder how hard the designers are working on it?

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Flat City's avatar

Question I have been wondering about for Monty Fall. In real life, if you were a contestant and Monty fell and appeared to accidentally open a door, but the game continued anyway, you'd probably be at least a bit suspicious that this was scripted. Shouldn't any nonzero subjective probability of Monty's fall being information-bearing cause you to shift from being indifferent to being at least slightly in favor of switching? (Feel free to just tell me "quit fighting the hypothetical, you" if that is the right way to think of this.)

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