Kavka's toxin puzzle
inky:
I love a good thought experiment before bedtime. Via dailymeh:
An eccentric billionaire offers you a million dollars if at midnight tonight you intend to drink a vial of poison tomorrow afternoon. You are free to change your mind after midnight and not take the poison; you will receive the money whether you take the poison or not, so long as you at midnight sincerely intend to take it. Knowing all this, can you get the money, yet also avoid the poison?
damn, this is a teaser…. thought about getting the money up front, get trashed that morning, pass out before midnight, wake up saying ‘oh shit, i meant to take that, but whoops…’, except the intention has been altered as you took direct action to thwart it.
just hope some other act of nature runs its course, e.g. accidental slip, hit by car, kidney stones, etc…?
