roland comments on You May Already Be A Sinner - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Yvain 09 March 2009 11:18PM

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Comment author: roland 10 March 2009 10:58:39PM 11 points [-]

If I were a Calvinist, I'd live a life of sin if and only if I would two-box on Newcomb's Problem.

I disagree. In Newcomb's problem the superintelligence's decision is conditional on your future actions whereas in the calvinist doctrine this isn't the case.

Comment author: Aaron 11 March 2009 04:47:21PM *  5 points [-]

This is true. According to Calvinism, election is explicitly stated to be "unconditional." Election that is conditional on future knowledge of your actions is not Calvinism, but is closer to its theological opposite, Arminianism.