233 - The Puzzler - A. J. Jacobs
You Are Not So Smart
The Sleeping Beauty Problem
The sleeping beauty problem has to do with probability. You wake up sleeping beauty, and you flip a coin; based on the coin, you do other things. A mathematician is an expert on it, but no one's quite sure what he or she knows. It gets into quanta mechanics and alternate worlds.
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