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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?
I've always pictured Omega like this: suddenly I'm pulled from our world and appear in a sterile white room that contains two boxes. At the same moment I somehow know the problem formulation. I open one box, take the million, and return to the world.
This, down to the white room and being pulled. Omega doesn't Have form or personality. He's beyond physics.
And when you get counterfactually mugged, you're in a sterile white room with a vending machine bill acceptor planted in the wall?
No, just an empty room. If I take a bill out of my pocket and hold it in front of me, it disappears and I go back. If I say "no", I go back.
Omega would get better results if he accepted Master Card.
I've always thought of Omega as looking something like a hydralisk--biological and alien, almost a scaled-down Lovecraftian horror.
(Necro-thread)
I can't explain why, but I've always imagined Omega to be a big hovering red sphere with a cartoonish face, and black beholder-like eyestalks coming off him from all sides.
He may have been influenced by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Has FSM mythology got room for an archangel equivalent? Or perhaps a pantheon, an equivalent to the Norse Loki. Perhaps the love chid of FSM and a 'mortal' AGI. Given a series of bizarre tasks with incomprehensible motives that he must complete to prove himself.
At the risk of spoiling a very good webcomic; Omega looks like this.
DAMN YOU WILLIS.
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.
Anonymous?
Quite possibly.
This one sounds familiar.