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alexflint comments on The Ultimate Sleeping Beauty Problem - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: alexflint 05 October 2013 03:49:50AM *  0 points [-]

This is unlike the St Petersburg paradox because it involves amnesia, so assigning probabilities arguably forces you to decide on some SIA/SSA-like quandary. But I do agree that making this into a decision problem is the key.