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michaelavena

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Im kind of bored, so I figured Ill just mess with you guys. Answer this question:

Suppose you get the following proposal from an eccentric billionaire:

"Toxin X is a substance that will make you violently ill for a few hours. However, it has no long term effects of any kind. As an experiment in psychology, I'm offering you a million dollars if tonight at midnight you fully intend to drink toxin X by tomorrow at noon. You don't actually have to drink the toxin; all you have to do is to intend to drink it. Your intention will be tested by a device similar to a polygraph which my people have developed and which has been shown to be 100% accurate. If at midnight you have the intention, a million will be wired to your bank account. The only other conditions are that you are to make no bets, do anything that will cause you to become irrational, or arrange for any way to avoid the effects of the toxin."

Suppose you decide that being ill for one day is a reasonable price to pay for a million dollars. Your first thought is to therefore agree to the proposal. It then occurs to you that you won't even have to become sick in order to win the money. All you have to do is to intend to drink the toxin. You don't actually have to carry out your intention.

But now if you know ahead of time that you don't actually have to drink the toxin, then you can't really intend to drink it. So you tell yourself you really do have to drink it. But then if at midnight you really did intend to drink the toxin, and you got the million, then come the next day you would no longer have any reason to drink it: you've already been paid and drinking the toxin would make you unnecessarily sick.

Is there any way for you to win the money?
 
You could set a rig, where u totally intend to drink it, but as u step within 5 feet of the drink, u have traps setup that spill it down the drain.
You did intend to drink it totally
so u win
 
Decide you will drink the toxin between night and noon, but have a friend hide it in a place you would absolutely never find it. So you would intend to drink it, but would not be able to find the thing.

Personally....I would just drink it...
 
I would 'intend' to drink it from the very start. Doesn't matter what else he said, I'D BE RICH :D
 
You could get Yen to include it in one of his recipes and eat that. Your going to get ill anyway.
 
limoman said:
You could get Yen to include it in one of his recipes and eat that. Your going to get ill anyway.
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This is very true. You may as well enjoy (not the best word to use here) the food you're eating with the toxin in.

I'd just drink the toxin.
 
I'd Intend to drink the toxin with a delicious meal and inevitably end up burning it all away. Then I could say to billionaire dude look I was gonna drink it but it was lost in a cooking mishap.

Of course in reality I'd just drink it the moment he gave it to me. Also when he says a device that my people have invented does that mean hes an alien?
 
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