{"id":173,"date":"2013-03-27T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2013-03-27T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T16:58:53","slug":"conservation-of-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/conservation-of-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation of Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of the game show <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jeopardy.com\">Jeopardy<\/A>, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jeopardy.com\/showguide\/bios\/alextrebek\/\">Alex Trebek<\/A> often wishes the contestants &#8220;good luck to all three of you&#8221;. Which got me thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t good luck for one contestant bad luck for the others? If one is lucky enough to get a category they&#8217;re familiar with, isn&#8217;t that bad luck for the others?<\/p>\n<p>This leads to the supposition that &#8220;the total amount of luck in a closed system remains constant&#8221;, similar to the idea of conservation of energy. A corollary might be that the total amount of luck in a closed system is zero.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we have to be careful about the boundaries of our &#8220;closed system&#8221;. If all three contestants have bad luck and win very little money, isn&#8217;t that lucky for the person who has to pay out the prize money?<\/p>\n<p>I might feel incredibly lucky that I dodged that bread truck and didn&#8217;t get run over, but isn&#8217;t that stroke of good luck offset by the bad luck for the undertaker, and the guy who makes his living fixing dents in bread trucks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of the game show Jeopardy, Alex Trebek often wishes the contestants &#8220;good luck to all three of you&#8221;. Which got me thinking&#8230; Isn&#8217;t good luck for one contestant bad luck for the others? If one is lucky enough to get a category they&#8217;re familiar with, isn&#8217;t that bad luck for the others? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}