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Sleeping Beauty problem

The Sleeping Beauty problem, also known as the Sleeping Beauty paradox, is a puzzle in decision theory in which an ideally rational epistemic agent is told she will be awoken from sleep either once or twice according to the toss of a coin. Each time she will have no memory of whether she has been awoken before, and is asked what her degree of belief that…

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related to Further reading · 57
Sleeping Beauty problem → Analysis, Anthropic Bias, Anthropic Reasoning Resolved Using, Arntzenius, Bostrom, Bradley, Bruce, Cite, CiteSeerX, Colin, Colombo, Crupi, Defence, Dorr's, Elga, Entering, Experience, Forgetful Bayesian, Full Non-indexical Conditioning, Inquiry
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Sleeping Beauty problem → An, Anthropic Preprint Archive, Bischoff, Dawn, Franceschi, Keeping Mathematicians Awake, Manon, New Day, New Odds, Papers Entry, Paul, PDF, Retrieved, Scientific American, Sleeping Beauty, Sleeping Beauty Awakened, Sleeping Beauty Problem' Is, Terry Horgan, The Sleeping Beauty Problem, Two-Sided Ontological Solution
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Sleeping Beauty problem → Adam Elga, Ariel Rubinstein, Arnold Zuboff, Decision Problems, Example, Experience, Imperfect Recall, Interpretation, Michele Piccione, On, One Self, Peter Winkler, Robert Stalnaker, Sleeping Beauty, The, The American Mathematical Monthly, The Logic, Usenet
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Sleeping Beauty problem → Another, Imagine, In, Sleeping Beauty, The, These, This, We

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