October 24, 2010
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Quantum of Jimbo
Jimbo is alone in his apartment with all of the doors and blinds shut. He has a sink full of dishes and all afternoon to do them. He begins the afternoon watching videos on YouTube. After every YouTube video, there is roughly a 50-50 chance he will decide to get out of his chair and clean the dishes. To a person standing outside of Jimbo's apartment, Jimbo will enter a quantum state of both doing the dishes and not doing the dishes after a few minutes pass for the first YouTube video to finish.
Can Jimbo use this as rationale for not bothering to do his dishes and not feel guilty about it? Explain.
Comments (2)
No. There is no excuse for doing the dishes while there are still good YouTube videos to watch.
Paper plates, plastic cups and silverware. Then you take the trash out more and never had to do dishes.