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i have a news segment and a part-time job at the station, if you don't recall. i'm used to multitasking and forsaking sleep.

[ junpei, please.... ]

that doesn't make it a good thing...

[Is productivity worth that much, Akechi? Is it? Take a nap.]

you gave up on the riddle already?

not everything is black and white.

[ SAYS THIS ASSHOLE.... ]

an animal, then.

i guess. your roommate doesn't sleep either, apparently. maybe it's in your house water?

and no, but what animal would that even be?

i'm sure we were both like this before.

and what is it, then?

it was a joke. i'm still awake too, remember?

she's just a kid, but her birthday's december 31 and "today" is january 1.

that's fair. though you're an "adult", by your standards.

so you were going be calendar year. i see.

you don't have to put it in sarcasm quotes... but i'm more calendar years than you, so yeah.

[ he is so perplexed by junpei. always. ]

and how many was that, again?

[If ONLY!!! the math were right to make a sick 8/11 joke here to go with his riddle, but that'd be a stretch.]

i'm 22. 1 whole "grown up."

[ SHAKING MY HEAD.... ]

impressive. you certainly have me by many years. you're a bona fide grown-up.

[ this sass... ]

[let him live.......]

yeah, yeah, laugh it up.

since we're on the subject, have you ever heard of the sleeping beauty problem?

[Junpei had a year off after Death Ship to read all the thought experiments on wikipedia. Here he goes.]

[ ugh why is this happening. ]

i imagine you aren't talking about a princess falling asleep until true love's kiss, so no.

[it begins]

no, that's the fairy tale problem.

sleeping beauty volunteers to be part of an experiment. she's told that on sunday she'll be chemically put to sleep. once or twice, she'll be woken up, asked a question, and put to sleep using an amnesia drug that will make her forget waking up at all.

meanwhile, the experimenters flip a coin: if it's heads, she wakes up on monday and is asked a question only once. if it's tails, they wake her up on monday and tuesday and ask the question. either way, she wakes up on wednesday with no question and the experiment is over.

so every time she wakes up, she doesn't know what day it is or whether she's been woken up before. the question they ask is: what is your belief right now that the coin landed on heads?

so. what does she do?

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is she aware of the parameters of the experiment? as in, the consequences of the coin-flip?

[ what. the. fuck? ]

[glad u answered his shitty riddle now aren't u]

yeah. she knows all about the coin toss, the schedule, the drug, and the possible results. the only thing she doesn't know is what the coin toss results were.

i see. then she should ask what day of the week it is.

[ he hates his life, actually. ]

she's not allowed to ask that. come on. the experiment is about probability, not skirting the rules.

[boy.....]

[ HE LIKES TO SKIRT THE RULES... ]

she will wake up monday and wednesday regardless of whether or not the coin is heads or tails. the real question is whether or not it's a tuesday. this means she only has a 50% chance of waking up on tuesday. it's more likely that it is a monday or a wedesday, given that these events occur regardless of whether the coin is heads or tails.

[... and? ]

[FOLLOW THE RULES, TROUBLEMAKER]

good, but she doesn't get the question on wednesday, so she doesn't have to do anything that day. on wednesday she doesn't remember being asked anything at all, just that it happened either once or twice, depending on the coin toss she didn't see. so the other 50% chance has to be monday, right? it's still even.

that's assuming she didn't just sleep straight through monday and tuesday, of course.

so she remembers that it's happened before? how so? how did the drug not erase those memories, too?

no, they're gone. i'm saying she has to believe it happened because she was told beforehand about the experiment. sorry, that one was on me.

anyway, there isn't actually an answer. it's a thought experiment.

... i see. do you usually dwell on thought experiments at this hour?

i guess. what if that happened to us? i mean what if we did something we don't remember?

[Punchline: been there, done that. Never mind.]

maybe i'm just not that tired.

are you suggesting has happened that none of us remember? i suppose that's true. after all, we did wake up on the station with limited intel.

[ so not too far off???? ]

have you tried sleeping pills?

breathes in your general direction

whoa, menacing....

i'm the most menacing

yeah i'm shaking

in fear or joy....

that's the mystery

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hey i hate that i had this idea and typed all this out

what is happening to my life

i'm just prepping u to play zero time dilemma obv

this is a good primer bless u

i'm helping

i'm tipsy solving fucking riddles why is this my life

you told me to do this so clearly the bad judgment runs deep

IM JUST. STARING AT THIS.

don't think too hard

butbutbut

shhhhhh be still

i can't i'm playing ztd