Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 September 2009 08:30:01PM *  1 point [-]

Depending on your beliefs about what computation Omega did to choose its policy, the TDT counterfactual comes out as either "If things like me one-boxed, then Omega would put $1m into box B on seeing a blue dot" or "If things like me one-boxed, then Omega would still have decided to leave B empty when seeing a blue dot, and so if things like me one-boxed I would get nothing."