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

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Comment author: timtyler 17 March 2010 07:02:37AM * 0 points [-]

Omega can say:

"I have predicted you will refuse the $10, and there is $1000,000 in the envelope".

There is absolutely no problem with that - if you are a refuser (as specified in the hypothetical) and if the envelope does indeed contain $1000,000.

True, he would have to say something else, in the case where the envelope is empty.

Comment author: ata 17 March 2010 07:35:24AM 0 points [-]

Ah, yes, you're right.

Now I'm not sure if I was correctly interpreting Eliezer's point or just restating my own.