• son_named_bort@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Sisyphus would only be happy if he ends up on a game show where he can win a car if he picks which one of the three doors is correct. Sisyphus picks door number 1 and then the host reveals door number 3 as one of the doors that does not have the car. The host gives Sisyphus a chance to change his pick to door number 2. Does Sisyphus change his pick?

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Sisyphus could try to change his pick, but he could never get there. He could only change half his pick, then half his remaining pick, then half the remaining remaining pick, and so on until nearly all his pick is changed. It could never be entirely changed though. It also comes with free choice of topping.

  • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Nah, you can always rely on the Hilbert Hotel for a good night’s rest. Your room is down the hall, just keep walking, you’ll find it.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Send him to the hotel and call ahead to ask the bellhop to ask the guests to all move to the room that’s numbered twice the one they’re currently staying in.

    Nice hotel stays make most people at least happier, plus now half (minus one) of the rooms will have opened up for the evening!

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Not pictured but relevant: the lever controls a mechanism which exposes a switch to a subatomic particle- the switch is triggered depending upon the state of the particle, and will release a poison into a sealed box containing a cat. Depending upon the status of the cat (alive or dead), Sisyphus’s boulder will be diverted.

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    10 months ago

    Let’s cut all the philosophical crap and focus on what is most important here.

    Would you still love me, now that I’m a worm?

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    10 months ago

    Given an infinite number of rooms and guests, it is highly likely both he and the boulder are already there. So he should go to the hotel where he already is and has a room

    Happy comes from hap, which is essentially luck. So happy can imply lucky or fortunate. If he gets to the hotel and finds he already is checked into his room in an otherwise full hotel, then he is indeed lucky and likely happy.

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    10 months ago

    Everyone in the hotel shifts two rooms down. Sis and boulder take rooms 1 and 2, now empty, respectively.

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      10 months ago

      You have made infinite people unhappy by forcing them to change rooms. But Sisyphus is happy so who cares about the rest of them