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25 Post author: JosephY 24 July 2014 12:31AM

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 26 July 2014 04:17:29AM 2 points [-]

I don't get the Bostrom one

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 26 July 2014 06:12:23AM *  6 points [-]

I dunno whether its that funny, but its the sleeping beauty problem in anthropics, where you can alter subjective probabilities (e.g. of winning the lottery) by waking people up and giving them an amnesia-inducing drug. Only in this case, sleeping beauty is drunk.

Of course, explained like this it definitely isn't funny