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Ep. 249 - The Sleeping Beauty Problem

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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Sleeping Beauty's Memory Is White When She Wakes Up

Sleeping Beauty knows the experiment when she has woken up what is her correct credence or probability of heads versus tails on which game she is. She doesn't have to know that it could be Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. If you want to know where this is going philosophically, there's something of a reincarnation theme, I believe, is what's popping up here.

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