Nebu comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong
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Whaddaya mean humans are rational agents with access to genuine randomness? That's what we're arguing about in the first place!
Perhaps Omega is entangled with your brain such that in all the worlds in which you would choose to one-box, he would predict that you one-box, and all the worlds in which you would choose to two-box, he would predict that you two-box?
In the original formulation, if Omega expects you to flip a coin, he leaves box B empty.