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Rasmusen’s Lifeboat HypotheticalMike Rappaport

By Thomas A. Smith

Eric Rasmusen has an interesting set of questions about a lifeboat which can hold 5 people “without sinking in the next storm (aninevitable one), but 6 are in it. All will die unless one is thrown out.”