
Ep. 249 - The Sleeping Beauty Problem
The Local Maximum with Max Sklar
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Is Probability Fundamentally Broken?
"I just thought it was a much, much darker experiment in that you could end up kind of stuck in an infinite loop where you keep getting put to sleep and woken back up again," he says. "If you don't have memory, then repeating an experiment multiple times and tallying the result is no good or a nonstarter" He adds: "Belief is a really interesting thing. We've talked about probability is belief for a long time."
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