pengvado comments on My Fundamental Question About Omega - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pengvado 11 February 2010 12:17:06AM *  3 points [-]

X is "You will give Omega $5 if Omega appears, tells you it predicted X, and asks you for $5."

That is an interesting math problem. And the math problem has an solution, which is called a quine. So the self-referentialness of the prediction is not by itself a sufficient objection to your scenario.

Comment author: MrHen 11 February 2010 12:21:28AM 1 point [-]

Nice, thanks.