Kingreaper comments on The Smoking Lesion: A problem for evidential decision theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kingreaper 23 August 2010 03:12:57PM 0 points [-]

I think you've misunderstood me. "What you will choose" is a fact that exists before omega fills the boxes.

This fact determines how the boxes are filled.

"What you will choose" (some people seem to refer to this, or something similar, as your "disposition", but I find my terminology more immediately apparent) causes the future event "how the boxes are filled"

Comment author: SilasBarta 23 August 2010 05:57:53PM 2 points [-]

Oh, sorry. Some of this stuff is just tough to parse, but your points are correct.

I'll leave up the previous post because it's an important thing to keep in mind.

Comment author: Kingreaper 23 August 2010 06:05:58PM 0 points [-]

Indeed. I'll try to be clearer in future.

Comment author: Unknowns 24 August 2010 06:20:01AM 0 points [-]

That isn't relevant. For all you know, Omega also created the universe, and so set it in the situation that disposed you to choose the way you did.

When the game actually begins, you cannot change your disposition, and you cannot change the million dollars.