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Also it actually can tell you which door you hid the car behind, because unlike with the purely mathematical game, your placement isn't random, and your doors aren't perfect. Between humans being quite predictable (especially when they try to behave randomly) and the environment leaking information left and right in thousands of ways we can't imagine, the AI will have plenty of clues.

I mean, did you make sure to clean the doors before presenting them? That tiny layer of dust on door number 3 all but eliminates it from possible choices. Oh, and it's clear from the camera image that you get anxious when door number 2 is mentioned - you do realize you can take pulse readings by timing the tiny changes in skin color that the camera just manages to capture? There was a paper on this a couple years back, from MIT if memory serves. And it's not something particularly surprising - there's a stupid amount of information entering our senses - or being recorded by our devices - at any moment, and we absolutely suck at making good use of it.



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