MrHen comments on My Fundamental Question About Omega - Less Wrong
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Right, when Omega is perfect, this isn't really a useful distinction. The correlation between B and A is irrelevant for the odds of p(A|O). It does get more interesting when asking:
p(A|B)
p(~A|B)
p(O|B)
These are still interesting even when Omega is perfect. If, as you suggest, we look at the relationship between A, B, and O when Omega isn't perfect, your questions are dead on in terms of what matters.