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Traitors and probabilities

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Jan 31, 2025
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Traitors and probability

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Here’s a fun way to spoil great human drama: treat defection/elimination games like Traitors, Squid Games or even the board game Secret Hitler, not as games of tactics, subterfuge, detection and betrayal, but simple exercises in basic random probability.

On the one hand, this makes no sense: events in these games are not random. T…

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