Problems of A More Philosophical Nature
- Sunrise problem: What is the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow?
- Doomsday argument: How valid is the probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future lifetime of the human race given only an estimate of the total number of humans born so far?
- Exchange paradox: within the subjectivistic interpretation of probability theory; more specifically within Bayesian decision theory. This is still an open problem among the subjectivists as no consensus has been reached yet. Examples include:
- The two envelopes problem
- The necktie paradox
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