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SIO411: Zeno, Pascal, and Sleeping Beauty All Walk Into a Bar...

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, Atheism, Skepticism, Democrat, Left, Liberal, Politics, News Commentary, Progressive, Religion

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Do you like philosophical thought experiments and probability theory and have a structured settlement and want cash now? Have I got the podcast episode for you! Dr. Bryan Gillis takes us through some fun and fascinating philosophical quandaries related to the Simulation Hypothesis!
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0:00.0

And the Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries only this is episode 411. I'm your

0:19.2

House Thomas Smith. I'm your I'm your simulator for the day. I'll be conducting this experiment on you.

0:26.8

No, this is kind of a second part of the Do We Live in a simulation series.

0:33.4

Lots more to come.

0:34.2

This one has some very interesting philosophy

0:36.9

that I teased last time.

0:38.4

We talk about something called the Sleeping Beauty Problem.

0:40.5

We talk about Pascal's wager.

0:42.2

And we also talk about some other kind of

0:44.0

probability stuff summing infinite series lots of fascinating stuff here this one okay

0:49.7

so I'm gonna say this one I think could possibly be tough to follow maybe or lose some people so I want to tell you

0:56.7

at the end of the episode I'm gonna come back around and do a little bit of a post script

1:02.2

again so if you have a little bit of a postscript again.

1:02.8

So if you have a little trouble following all the nuances of this philosophy and this math in this one,

1:08.8

don't feel bad, hang around to the end.

1:10.5

I'll try to, you know, kind of of reiterate things make it a little bit easier for the

1:14.9

take home it's some really cool stuff but you know philosophy probability math

1:19.4

physics not always easy once again you can avoid the auto ad you're about to hear by going to

1:25.4

Patreon.com slash serious pod pledging as little as a dollar avoid all that garbage

1:30.6

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1:33.4

hear them skip them I have no problem with anyone skipping the ads but if you'd like to

1:37.2

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