Qiaochu_Yuan comments on LINK: Infinity, probability and disagreement - Less Wrong
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If you want to assign probability 1/2 in step 5, you're implicitly doing it by using some symmetry of the problem (namely the symmetry that exchanges you with the twin sitting across from you). But the mathematical issue above means there's no reason to expect that this is actually a symmetry of the problem. If you agree that the number 5/6 doesn't come from looking at symmetries involving twins in step 2, there's no reason to get a second number by looking at symmetries involving twins in step 5.
No, I'm saying that it stays 1/6.
Nothing changes. And a real Bayesian shouldn't believe the angel in the first place.