“My point was that people who see Sleeping Beauty-like problems as a normal part of everyday life would likely have a better perspective on the problem than we do”
Yes, I agree.
“so it might be worth trying to think from their perspective.”
Yes, it might. But I think we shouldn’t expect to be very successful in this attempt. So if trying to do that gives a result that contradicts ordinary reasoning, which really ought to suffice for Sleeping Beauty, then we’re probably not thinking from their perspective very well.
I agree that it is difficult to see things from the perspective of people in such a world, but we should at least be able to think about whether certain hypotheses about how they’d think are plausible. That may still be difficult, but ordinary reasoning is not easy to do reliably in these cases either; if it was, then presumably there would be a consensus on how to address the Sleeping Beauty problem.
“My point was that people who see Sleeping Beauty-like problems as a normal part of everyday life would likely have a better perspective on the problem than we do”
Yes, I agree.
“so it might be worth trying to think from their perspective.”
Yes, it might. But I think we shouldn’t expect to be very successful in this attempt. So if trying to do that gives a result that contradicts ordinary reasoning, which really ought to suffice for Sleeping Beauty, then we’re probably not thinking from their perspective very well.
I agree that it is difficult to see things from the perspective of people in such a world, but we should at least be able to think about whether certain hypotheses about how they’d think are plausible. That may still be difficult, but ordinary reasoning is not easy to do reliably in these cases either; if it was, then presumably there would be a consensus on how to address the Sleeping Beauty problem.