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Not really. Unlike the monty hall problem, sleeping beauty receives no additional information. The thought experiment was originally brought up to illustrate ho
by foweltschmerz 2y ago
Not really. Unlike the monty hall problem, sleeping beauty receives no additional information. The thought experiment was originally brought up to illustrate how a perfectly rational agent’s credence in the relevance of her temporal position to some proposition can change over time even though she receives no new information nor suffers from a cognitive mishap. This point is more evident in the original paper by Elga: https://swh.princeton.edu/~adame/papers/sleeping/sleeping.pdf https://swh.princeton.edu/~adame/papers/sleeping/sleeping.pd...