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

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 17 March 2010 04:13:51AM 1 point [-]

What gets me is the peculiarly elaborate pitfall into which I, at least, fell.

Suppose you said: "Invent a thought-experiment which could trick people who know to one-box in the classic Newcomb's paradox, into thinking that here was a higher-order analogue; the source of the error to be, that people who reason wrongly do experience a higher payoff in this case."

Perhaps it should be called Armstrong's trap. But did he make it by design, or did he just fall into it first?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 17 March 2010 12:45:47PM *  2 points [-]

It's all built on Drescher's version, just stripped down.

And I didn't fall into Drescher's trap: I incorrectly stated the correct answer, then thought about it really hard and really long, and correctly stated the correct answer.