Last night I introduced a couple of friends to Newcomb's Problem/Counterfactual Mugging, and we discussed it at some length. At some point, we somehow stumbled across the question "how do you picture Omega?"
Friend A pictures Omega as a large (~8 feet) humanoid with a deep voice and a wide stone block for a head.
When Friend B hears Omega, he imagines Darmani from Majora's mask (http://www.kasuto.net/image/officialart/majora_darmani.jpg)
And for my part, I've always pictured him a humanoid with paper-white skin in a red jumpsuit with a cape (the cape, I think, comes from hearing him described as "flying off" after he's confounded you).
So it seemed worth asking LW just for the amusement: how do you picture Omega?
A white human-shaped figure in a business suit, possibly faceless, stepping into a transparent blue cube for the flight part. Possibly unconsciously influenced by Einstein.
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