wedrifid comments on The Presumptuous Philosopher's Presumptuous Friend - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 05 October 2009 12:53:07PM 0 points [-]

Yes it does. It makes decision in the past that depends on your decision in the future, and your decision in the future can assume Omega has already decided in the past. That's a causality loop.

Newcomb is a completely bogus problem.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 October 2009 01:00:53PM *  1 point [-]

He makes a prediction based on the nearby state of the universe that you model with an accuracy that approaches 1. If your mathematician can't handle that then find a better mathematician.

I shall continue to find Omega useful.

ETA: The part of the Newcomb problem that is actually hard to explain is that I am somehow confident that Omega is being truthful.