Ep. 246 - AJ Jacobs: The Puzzler
The Local Maximum with Max Sklar
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The Sleeping Beauty Problem
The sleeping beauty problem involves a woman who is put to sleep and then woken up with an amnesia-inducing drug. If the coin lands on heads, she'll be interviewed once; if it's tails, she will be woken up three times. She can't tell which day it is or whether she has woken up before. The question is: What should her credence now be that the coin landed on heads?
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