Would people notice that? That was his question.

So you sort of start out on a board with green and white squares, like some of the boards we play with plastic pieces have, and then gradually they change to beige and brown or something like that by the end of the game, but just a little bit on each move.

Exactly, that's his point.

So that's...

Yeah, so that's a very – this guy should enroll in a PhD program or something like that, you know, like if he's interested.

That's a really good question because there is a phenomenon known as – Well, so to step back a second, in this invisible gorilla experiment, as probably most people know by now, at least I hope a lot of people know, a gorilla walks across the screen while you are watching people pass basketballs back and forth.

And you've been told to count the number of times they pass the balls back and forth.

It's like,

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Um, but the, the, the important part is that people don't interpret them as coincidences all the time.

In fact, there are whole sort of mystical schools of thought that have, have names like the power and the law of attraction and the secret and so on that actually ascribe causality to those things.

You know, you got the job offer because you thought about the job offer.

And, you know, if you had thought about not getting the job offer or thought about getting into a car crash, that thing would have happened to you instead.

It's really a very pernicious, you know, ideology to sort of blame people for their own suffering, blame their, you know, their bad thoughts.

But leaving that aside, the reason why people ascribe a lot of significance to that is that that's the top left corner of a very simple two-by-two grid.

How is that used by con artists and other scammers to mess with us?