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Yes, it sure is close. But not exact. Maybe you could explain why we can approximate, and why only this one example chosen to produce that result is i...
November 27, 2025 at 19:55
It is a lie that that is my argument. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I have repeated my argument for you, and this is not it. If you do not understand ...
November 27, 2025 at 19:44
It sure looks like you are. You are selecting numbers to get 2/3 as an answer, when it is not the answer in general. What I keep trying to get across,...
November 27, 2025 at 17:29
And if it had been a 6-day experiment, it would be 6/10=3/5. The point being that you are constructing a specific case, unclearly (your original didn'...
November 27, 2025 at 16:36
Then it was a misunderstanding that, if I may be bold, has all the appearance of being a misrepresentation of what you don't want to see if it would s...
November 27, 2025 at 13:41
I was assuming that was a typo, so I ignored it. Would you like to ask a question about what "my reasoning" would say? Because you have it horribly wr...
November 26, 2025 at 14:47
It is true, because the information is what can happen on this day and days like it, vs. what can happen on other days that is different. It is true, ...
November 25, 2025 at 19:54
You can't call it a "false analogy" if you don't actually address the analogy. Which you didn't. The point of asking a question is to get an answer to...
November 25, 2025 at 18:42
So you are saying that if everything is the same as in the popular version but SB plays tennis before the interviews, that her credence is 1/3? But if...
November 25, 2025 at 02:16
I'm assuming that nobody can answer this is a way that is consistent with the canonical halfer answer. Within the subject's knowledge, her waking expe...
November 24, 2025 at 16:03
An N-day experiment: The days of the experiment are named D(1) through D(N). D(0) is the night before the experiment begins, when SB is informed of al...
November 15, 2025 at 19:39
So, are you saying that the week skips from Monday to Wednesday if the coin lands on Heads? What it they wait to flip the coin until Tuesday Morning? ...
November 14, 2025 at 21:51
You are inserting details into the description of the outcomes, that provide no additional information. It has nothing to do with the of my position. ...
November 13, 2025 at 18:06
No. The reason I keep asking for specific answers to specific questions, is that I find that nobody addresses "my sample space." Even though I keep re...
November 12, 2025 at 19:03
It's supposed to turn the continuous passage of time into a discrete outcome. And yes, I have had halfers try to make that an issue. The Principle of ...
November 08, 2025 at 19:41
"Gee, what do I know? Well, if the coin landed Tails then there is another waking I have to go to, and I have to split the prior probability of Heads ...
November 06, 2025 at 19:32
quote="Pierre-Normand;1022039"]Before Beauty sleeps, the attendants lay out a garden she knows everything about: At the gate there's a fair fork: Head...
November 06, 2025 at 19:05
When SB N is awake, while she is aware of the map, she has no information that she can use to place herself in that map. IT IS IRRELEVANT. In any way ...
November 01, 2025 at 17:19
Then what would you say it is? If you say Q, then your credence in Tails must be 1-Q, and you have a paradox.
October 31, 2025 at 00:47
The SB problem is a classic illustration of confusing what probability is about. It is not a property of the system (the coin in the SB problem), it i...
October 30, 2025 at 18:05
You can refer to any part of the experiment you want. Sleeping Beauty knows all of the parts (*), but has no means to relate her current awake period ...
October 29, 2025 at 18:16
And I'm saying that this is the exact reason why she cannot base credence on what may, or may not, be the other part(s) of the "run" she is in. I'm sa...
October 29, 2025 at 11:46
Exactly. That is the opposite side of the ability you claim she could have, to make one "other awakening" selectively pop into significance based on k...
October 28, 2025 at 12:44
<Sigh.> I can repeat this as often as you ignore it. The experiment, when viewed from the outside, consists of two possible runs. The experiment that ...
October 26, 2025 at 21:40
You are one of four volunteers gathered on Sunday Night. You see the combinations "Monday and Heads," "Monday and Tails," "Tuesday and Heads," and "Tu...
October 23, 2025 at 16:41
SB does not know if a waking day is a Monday. Only that it is a waking day. She can eliminate the sleeping day because she knows this is a waking day....
October 23, 2025 at 00:43
SB "locates" herself in one of the four possible states in the experiment. These states exist whether or not she would be able to observe them, That w...
October 21, 2025 at 10:07
She is asked for her credence. I'm not sure what you think that means, but to me it means belief based on the information she has. And she has "new in...
October 20, 2025 at 13:05
And.... you continue to ignore the obvious point I am making. You keep looking at an "outcome" as what occurs over two days. The only "outcome" SB see...
October 20, 2025 at 10:47
Oh? You mean that a single car can say both "Monday & Tails" and "Tuesday & Tails?" Please, explain how. "What is your credence in the fact that this ...
October 18, 2025 at 18:25
Uh, yeah? Write "Heads and Monday" on one notecard. Write "Tails and Monday" on another, and "Tails and Tuesday" on a third. Turn them over, and shuff...
October 16, 2025 at 12:53
Perhaps you didn't parse correctly. There is no ambiguity. If she is asked to project her state of knowledge on Wednesday, or to recall it from Sunday...
October 15, 2025 at 18:03
This is what invalidates your variation. She is asked during the experiment, not before or after. Nobody contests what her answer should be before or ...
October 14, 2025 at 18:11
You may have read it. You did comment on it from that aspect. But you did not address it. The points it illustrates are: That each "day" (where that m...
October 13, 2025 at 17:37
Yep. What makes it an independent outcome, is not knowing how the actual progress of the experiment is related to her current situation. This is reall...
October 13, 2025 at 00:13
It's s different probability problem based on the same coin toss. SB has no knowledge of the other possible days, while this answer requires it.
October 12, 2025 at 19:29
When she is awake, what knowledge does she have, related to any other day or coin result? This is what seems difficult to accept. SB's "world" consist...
October 12, 2025 at 12:31
His explanation for "double halfers" used two coin flips. There is only one coin flip. So it is both incorrect mathematics, and incorrect about the do...
October 11, 2025 at 21:04
Yes, that makes the answer 1/2 BECAUSE IT IS A DIFFERENT PROBLEM. SB is asked once on each waking day, not once at the end. To even try to make it sim...
October 11, 2025 at 20:48
The point is that, like you, they construct the reasons in order to get the result they want. Not because the reasons are consistent in mathematics. B...
October 11, 2025 at 19:18
How about this schedule: . M T W H F S 1 A E E E E E 2 A B E E E E 3 A B A E E E 4 A B A B E E 5 A B A B A E 6 A B A B A B When A happens, if E is tre...
October 10, 2025 at 20:28
Right. And this is they get the wrong answer, and have to come up with contradictory explanations for the probabilities of the days. See "double halfe...
October 09, 2025 at 12:13
Then try this schedule: . M T W H F S 1 A E E E E E 2 A A E E E E 3 A A A E E E 4 A A A A E E 5 A A A A A E 6 A A A A A A Here, A is "awake and interv...
October 09, 2025 at 01:27
Thank you for that. But you ignored the third question: Does it matter if E is "Extended sleep"? That is, the same as Tuesday&Heads. in the popular ve...
October 09, 2025 at 01:13
It's "addressed" to what I thought was a discussion forum. You know, to discuss this problem and the approach to its solution. And more specifically, ...
October 08, 2025 at 22:29
You didn't respond to a single point in it. You only acknowledged its existence, while you continued your invalid analysis about changing bets and exp...
October 07, 2025 at 18:27
According to the often-misrepresented, original Thirder analysis by Adam Elga, there are two independent random elements: the coin toss, and the day. ...
October 06, 2025 at 23:43
SB has no unusual "epistemic relationship to the coin," which is what the point of my new construction was trying to point out. That fallacy is based ...
October 06, 2025 at 21:05
Sorry to resurrect. But I recently thought of a way to explain exactly how the halfers are misinterpreting the problem. It is based on how Marilyn vos...
October 04, 2025 at 14:07
It's known as the Sleeping Beauty Problem. No. It "suggests" that the conditional probability of an outcome depends on any information that is obtaine...
November 19, 2023 at 18:24