I Learned Nothing

ILN 75: Kavka's Toxin Puzzle


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Pat was feeling saucy so Ben tantalizes him with philosopher Gregory Kavka's Toxin Puzzle. In this mind-bending thought experiment that sounds like a very special episode of The Price Is Right, an eccentric billionaire (eg. Jeff Bezos' divorced ass) approaches you with a proposition: He will pay you one million dollars tomorrow morning if at midnight tonight you intend to drink a diarrhea-inducing elixir tomorrow afternoon. You'll feel like shit for 24 hours but there are no lasting side effects. The kicker is, you don't even actually have to drink the elixir. You get paid no matter what, whether you drink it or not, as long as you INTEND to drink it. Can you win the $1,000,000? Listen to find out, bitches!

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