| ▲ | zahlman 4 hours ago | |
I imagined it like:
(where "F" describes cases where the specified person tells you a Falsehood, and "T" labels the cases of that person telling you the Truth)In the check-mark (v) region, you get the right answer regardless; they are both being truthful, and of course you trust them when they agree. Similarly you get the wrong answer regardless in the x region. In the ? region you are no better than a coin flip, regardless of your strategy. If you unconditionally trust Alice then you win on the right-hand side, and lose on the left-hand side; and whatever Bob says is irrelevant. The situation for unconditionally trusting Bob is symmetrical (of course it is; they both act according to the same rules, on the same information). If you choose any other strategy, you still have a 50-50 chance, since Alice and Bob disagree and there is no reason to choose one over the other. Since your odds don't change with your strategy in any of those regions of the probability space, they don't change overall. | ||