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Ep. 249 - The Sleeping Beauty Problem

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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The One Half of the Coin Flip

God or appropriately powerful being flips a coin to determine which type of world to create. What is the probability that you are in world A versus world B? With no other information beyond these are the two possibilities and you know the fact that you have been born. So a halfer would say one half. But I think a thirder might say, well, we're much more likely to be on world B because world B has a much greater population.

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