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		zoltz on Feb 10, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Terry Tao: The blue-eyed islanders puzzle Day 2) Everyone's still here. If I were not blue eyed, these two guys would've noticed yesterday that they individually had blue eyes ... no they wouldn't have, because for each of them would be also reasonable to assume that there was only one person with blue eyes, who survived day 0 not knowing that there is anyone blue eyed at all.

zoltz on Feb 10, 2008 | [–]

I messed this up, what I meant is "... from the viewpoint of each of them it would be also reasonable to assume that ..."

aston on Feb 10, 2008 | [–]

Nah. Everyone can see two blue eyes.

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