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That's a cool problem. It took a while to understand the angle.

I'd say I'm a halfer. I think the extreme sleeping beauty problem highlights how if you're woken up, it's not any more probable it's a head or a tails awakening, since, for a reason I can't explain, the million tails awakenings "don't accumulate".

In a sense, it's like the opposite of the Monty Hall problem, since here the sleeping beauty receives no information whatsoever during the experiment.




I'd say I'm a halfer too, but a lot of physicists/philosophers say 1/3, and it really bothers me that I can't seem to sync up with world leaders.

source : http://rfcwalters.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-sleeping-beauty-p...




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