Episode 249 - The Sleeping Beauty Problem
Max and Aaron dive deeper into the sleeping beauty problem, which starts as a probability question, then wades into philosophy and finally theoretical cosmology. They take a listener email on the MLB playoff rules, and the distribution of the week is the Zeta distribution.
Links
Facebook: The Live Free and Debate Series
Fitelson.org: David Lewis - Sleeping Beauty: reply to Elga
Philsci-archive.pitt.edu: The Halfers are right in the end: Sleeping Beauty problem - Minseong Kim
Quanta Magazine: Solution: ‘Sleeping Beauty’s Dilemma’
Lesswrong: Sleeping Beauty Problem, Anthropic Principle and Perspective Reasoning
The Sporting News: MLB expanded playoffs, explained: How many teams will reach 2022 postseason, other essential information
Betway Insider: How do the MLB playoffs work? MLB playoffs explained
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