This is apparently an interview question from Black Rock.
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Murders in a field.
You are guarding 100 murders in a field and you have a gun with a single bullet. If only one of the murderers has a non-zero probability of surviving, he will attempt to escape. If a murderer is certain of death, he will not attempt escape.
How do you stop them from escaping.
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This question is so interesting so I thought I would give it a go of how I would answer.
I would announce to the prisoners.
That I have a kill switch, if I die the surrounding area is set to explode killing everyone. I walk around with the gun pointed to my head and a rubber band on the trigger finger, meaning if I get incapacitated the gun automatically fires.
I can't tell this solution is stupid, ingenious or completely fucking psychopathic, either way the prisoners aren't leaving.
@Humpleupagus That kind of works but these people are in a group. And that logic has been used before especially war prisoners and a large majority of those people will gamble the fact that they don't have enough firepower to kill everyone on the group if everyone decided to run at once.
Because even if you decide to get 5 to 10 buddies to run at once you could reasonably gamble that at least one to two of you will escape even if it's a modern firearm.
And considering it's only one person unless I'm holding a minigun they will probably gamble that I don't have enough bullets in the magazine to kill all of them.
@Humpleupagus oooo, what test is that.
I definitely want to try my luck on some questions from that.
