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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Conjecture: if you assume people also live on the hill, it would be easier to carry pails back down than to carry them up from the bottom of the hill.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Only in a 2D world with the directions being limited to "up" and "down". Carrying it laterally around the circumference of the hill would be equally probable.