Jonii comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jonii 23 July 2009 08:20:24AM 4 points [-]

Particularly in this case where Omega is being explicitly dishonest - Omega is claiming to be either be sufficiently omniscient to predict my actions, or insufficiently omniscient to predict the result of a 'fair' coin, except that the 'fair' coin is explicitly predetermined to always give the same result

Coin is not predetermined, and it doesn't matter if Omega has hand-selected every result of the coin toss, as long as we don't have any reason to slide the probability of the result to either direction.