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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 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.