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Khan Academy: Epistemology: Sleeping Beauty

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In this video, Michael introduces the Sleeping Beauty problem. This is a problem in formal epistemology about how to correctly assign probabilities to an odd scenario in which we flip a coin and, depending on the outcome, wake Sleeping Beauty up according to two different patterns. We'll discover some very strange consequences for our beliefs as a result.

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