thomblake comments on Confusion about Newcomb is confusion about counterfactuals - Less Wrong

35 Post author: AnnaSalamon 25 August 2009 08:01PM

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Comment author: thomblake 26 August 2009 03:58:41PM 1 point [-]

This seems correct to me, and I don't think it has any significant disagreement with AnnaSalamon's analysis above.

Personally, Newcomb's seems to me as though it's designed to generate this sort of confusion, in order to seem interesting or 'deep' - much like mysticism.