Simplifying the anthropic impossibility result
I previously demonstrated an anthropic impossibility theorem, showing that in Duplicates Sleeping Beauty, there was no possible probability theory that obeyed both the martingale condition and "simple Bayes" in non-anthropic situations.This post will clarify and simplify the result, replacing the martingale with the inclusion-exclusion principle for probability and fully defining both Simple Bayes and what a non-anthropic situation is.Duplicates Sleeping Beauty. She is put to sleep on Sunday, an...
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