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Why I care about imperfect-recall games

L5 · ResearcherResearchLessWrong AI· 10/17/2026

Addresses foundational theoretical questions at the intersection of AI decision-making and consciousness research.

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Explores connections between imperfect recall games, anthropics, decision theory, and reinforcement learning through the Sleeping Beauty problem framework.

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Lightly edited, partially by Opus 5.5, from a post on X.com 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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