This comic made me want to go and read up on my philosophy of probability. For discussion : what concepts are being articulated by the two characters?
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An Ergodic Walk 
The first character is making very naive use of a principle of indifference, or maximum entropy, or something else that objective bayesians like. The second character then reinterprets the probability statement as a frequency rather than a rational degree of belief, because this is the only notion of probability that frequentists accept.
The moral of the story is that you should be some sort of subjective bayesian! (Or at least, be more careful than the naive objective bayesian, and more open-minded than the frequentist that thinks the only probabilities are frequencies.)
Yeah, but what are the chances that kid’s going to survive with just a stick for a body?
Did you ever read “The Lady Tasting Tea?” I think I recommended it the last time I saw you.
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