cousin_it comments on Counterfactual Mugging and Logical Uncertainty - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 September 2009 10:31PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 06 September 2009 01:38:17PM *  1 point [-]

Omega could have known the 10000th digit of pi beforehand, so now it has a strategy for reliably extracting money from you. Or do you place some other restriction on Omega's behavior that I'm not seeing?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 06 September 2009 01:42:41PM 0 points [-]

Like in the original problem, Omega's decision to run the game is independent on the game's parameters. Omega is not trying to win, it just implements the thought experiment.