Traveler's Dilemma

[sntx]

So, Scientific American just ran a short piece by Kaushik Basu about the Traveler's Dilemma. Basu describes the game and explains why its interpretation causes some problems. He also mentions a few possible ways out. (Coincidentally, Scott Aaronson recently mentioned a similar issue in a totally different context, noting that people only tend to

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[sntx]

No doubt someone else's thought about where to go with this rather harder than I have, though.

My thought exactly, and I don't really have enough interest to pursue it further...