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[–] user86223091@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago

Completely agree! In this case there is no real paradox, 0% is a perfectly consistent answer.

I think if you replace 60% with 0%, you'd get a proper paradox, because now there is a non-zero chance of picking 0% and it's no longer consistent with itself. It's similar to the "This statement is false" paradox, where by assuming something is true, it makes it false and vice versa.