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Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by gyepi »

kyrias wrote: post #104
tel wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, if it's the case that there's a 1/6000 chance that the first guy gets hit, it's 5999/6000 chance that the third guy gets it. (Not true, but it's gesturally correct). So I imagine the odds are much less skewed or NOBODY forgets the spin between rounds. Also, if you don't spin between rounds and you're the 6th person to try it... this isn't really a game of risk anymore.

Heh, you really have no idea of what you're talking about, do you? (Or are just plain stupid)

One, the other, or both might by true. However, in polite company there is rarely a need to ask the former and definitely not the latter.

Putting other people down, even or especially when they are wrong says more about you than them. Please don't.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by L0j1k »

evanmoran wrote: post #90
firefoxman1 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is hacker news, chances are 1/6 he knows what a revolver is .

Revolver is a 1 in 6, but I say much higher he knows what a Desert Eagle or AWP is =). #CSDoesntStandForComputerScience

AWP lol.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by jpulgarin »

gambiting wrote: post #72
asafira wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ouch, looks like you are taking a lot of slack for this --- don't worry, I didn't realize the protocol for Russian Roulette was not to spin again after the first attempt, either. You're right if they spun it again afterwards, they are right if you just continue through the 6 bullet slots in the revolver.

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought, was really surprised by the number of down votes initially.

It's because you're underestimating the average intelligence of an HN reader. Basically everyone here knows how probability works for independent events.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by Alex3917 »

WA wrote: post #13

I once read that the chance of Russian Roulette is NOT 1:6 but more like 1:600, since you play with one bullet and the weight of the bullet makes it relatively unlikely that the bullet stops next to the top position in the barrel when you spin it. Don't know if this is true but in the end, it doesn't matter for this stupid game.

I love how people have so much trouble understanding the Monty Hall 'paradox', but when you give them basically the exact same problem in the form of Russian roulette then suddenly it becomes trivially intuitive that you REALLY want to spin in between turns.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by kevinpet »

x0054 wrote: post #24
WA wrote: post #13

I once read that the chance of Russian Roulette is NOT 1:6 but more like 1:600, since you play with one bullet and the weight of the bullet makes it relatively unlikely that the bullet stops next to the top position in the barrel when you spin it. Don't know if this is true but in the end, it doesn't matter for this stupid game.

The way I though you spin it is with the gun facing up. The would negate the gravity effect. And yes, people "play" it, stupid drunk people.

With the gun facing up is probably the most reasonable way to play. The round would have a good chance of falling out.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by yen223 »

onemorepassword wrote: post #93
btipling wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it isn't obvious that the listed testimonials are fake.

It is pretty obvious to most people. That doesn't make you stupid, but you may find that you encounter similar situations in life, and it's something you may want to be aware of before you start throwing around big words like "lies", "shameful" and "dishonest" where such reactions are completely misplaced.

"It is pretty obvious to most people."

I really doubt most people know who Gawker, Bruce Sterling, John Gruber or FaltyDL are, which makes it doubtful that most people are in on the joke.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by olalonde »

b0z0 wrote: post #43
btipling wrote: post #41

The testmonials on that site are complete fabrications. Gawker never said "Social Roulette just rewrote the rules for online gaming." nor has it ever mentioned Social Roulette and the Gruber quote also does not exist, only someone tweeted it at him. Testimonials that are lies are shameful and dishonest.

The creator was being facetious and the fabrications were meant to be obvious enough that no one would take them seriously, right?

In what way are the fabrications obvious? They seem like plausible testimonials to me.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by matthuggins »

gambiting wrote: post #73
emidln wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not how maths work. You're describing something that works for non-dependent events. Flipping a coin 50 times previously has no bearing on how it will flip the 51st time. The events are said to be independent. In a six round revolver loaded with a single bullet and then randomized, pulling the trigger advances the next round. The first pull has a 1/6 (or 1/600, whatever) chance of firing. You will fire (assumi…

Sorry, I honestly thought that you would spin before every try, in which case, every test would have the same 1/6 probability of firing.

Simple misunderstanding that I made as well until I read your comment chain.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by L0j1k »

shurcooL wrote: post #16
WA wrote: post #13

I once read that the chance of Russian Roulette is NOT 1:6 but more like 1:600, since you play with one bullet and the weight of the bullet makes it relatively unlikely that the bullet stops next to the top position in the barrel when you spin it. Don't know if this is true but in the end, it doesn't matter for this stupid game.

I thought it was a theoretical game that no one actually plays.

If you create something, no matter how completely ridiculous and stupid and dangerous and outright retarded it is, and then release it onto the population, someone somewhere will do it. In all likelihood, many people will.
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