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This strikes me like the Monty Hall problem where people intuitively believe the answer to be 50/50.

Does this not simulate the problem in python?

    import random
    coin = ["heads", "tails"]
    guess = "heads"
    guesses_correct = 0
    wakings = 0

    n = 1_000_000
    for _ in range(n):
        actual = random.choice(coin)
        if actual == guess:
            wakings += 1
            guesses_correct += 1
        else:
            wakings += 2

    print(f"guessed correctly: {guesses_correct/wakings:0.2f}%")


Not really. Unlike the monty hall problem, sleeping beauty receives no additional information. The thought experiment was originally brought up to illustrate how a perfectly rational agent’s credence in the relevance of her temporal position to some proposition can change over time even though she receives no new information nor suffers from a cognitive mishap. This point is more evident in the original paper by Elga: https://swh.princeton.edu/~adame/papers/sleeping/sleeping.pd...




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