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LargeWu12/09/20241 replyview on HN

well, they are part of the original, canonical problem. it's not the original problem's fault if re-tellers omit key information.


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foxglacier12/09/2024

They're not. It says he "opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat". That could mean he deliberately chose a door with a goat or he chose one by some unstated process and it happened to have a goat by chance. It says he "knows what's behind the doors" but that statement means nothing because it doesn't say how he uses that knowledge, if at all. It's full of language ambiguity.