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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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What Is Your Credence That the Coin Comes Up Heads?

There's a 50 fifthy chan of being heads or tails. If the coin comes up heads then you put her to sleep on monday, on sunday, sorry, on mONDAY. You wake her up again on tuesday, and you ask her the question again. And it's a fair coin, so it's what you would ordinarily assign 50 50 credence to,. But if the coin came up tails, then you wake her up m Monday, you ask her that question, and then you put she back to sleep - this is why you never get approval to do this in rea world. In either case, and you let her live her life.

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