timtyler comments on Omega's subcontracting to Alpha - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 March 2010 06:52PM

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Comment author: timtyler 16 March 2010 10:39:16PM *  0 points [-]

That seems like a reasonable analysis to me - assuming that you get to keep the contents of the envelope.

So: the solution depends on information about Omega's motivation not included in the problem description. Time to consult those mythology textbooks, methinks - so we have appropriate priors :-/

[edit: scratch this - I get it now!]