MrHen comments on My Fundamental Question About Omega - Less Wrong
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If Omega asked you for $5 and promised you $10, would you do it?
Do you mean that Omega explains that it will give me $10 if and only if I give it $5? Then, yes, I would give it $5.
I see where this is going, and you are ignoring the conventional implicit "All else being equal". Do you agree that Omega declaring its prediction is not what causes me to give it $5, and that making such predictions does not make the subject a money pump?
Yep. This isn't counterfactual mugging and isn't intended to be. The point in this post will apply to counterfactual mugging, but the information in this post will not turn the subject into a money pump.
I didn't ignore it. I made this point in the post:
The expected response to this post is, "Well, yeah."