I like it! I also like your gladiatorial solution, but I’m not convinced it would work.
You’re walking through an alleyway and see a $20 bill on the ground. Your forensic skills tell you that it has lain there for 13.2 years, a suspiciously long time. There are several resolutions to this apparent paradox. Perhaps not many people have passed by. Perhaps the bill isn’t really that old. Or perhaps some soft of filter prevents people from picking up the bill (e.g. an economist-eating monster consumes anyone who gets too close).
You take out spray paint and graffiti “I will pick up this $20 dollar bill -->”, thereby extracting yourself from the reference class of people who tried to pick up the $20 and quietly failed. It’s a clever plan, but even if you are the first passerby to think of the plan I don’t believe it advances your interests.
I like it! I also like your gladiatorial solution, but I’m not convinced it would work.
You’re walking through an alleyway and see a $20 bill on the ground. Your forensic skills tell you that it has lain there for 13.2 years, a suspiciously long time. There are several resolutions to this apparent paradox. Perhaps not many people have passed by. Perhaps the bill isn’t really that old. Or perhaps some soft of filter prevents people from picking up the bill (e.g. an economist-eating monster consumes anyone who gets too close).
You take out spray paint and graffiti “I will pick up this $20 dollar bill -->”, thereby extracting yourself from the reference class of people who tried to pick up the $20 and quietly failed. It’s a clever plan, but even if you are the first passerby to think of the plan I don’t believe it advances your interests.