🧩 Philosophy 16h ago · jessicata

Why I care about imperfect-recall games

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Why do I even care about imperfect recall games? Why do I have opinions on the Sleeping Beauty problem? It's a long story. I have a sketch of the connections between a number of areas: anthropics, decision theory, reinforcement learning, consciousness. But I don't have the full formal story yet.
Sleeping Beauty
What is the Sleeping Beauty problem? On Sunday someone flips a coin without telling you the result, and you go to bed. On Monda

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