NihilCredo comments on Punishing future crimes - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Bongo 28 January 2011 09:00PM

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Comment author: NihilCredo 30 January 2011 12:55:36AM 0 points [-]

You can have your choice of a coin-flipping Omega, or an Omega that leaves box B empty unless you would one-box no matter what.

...or an Omega that fills box B unless you would two-box no matter what.

Comment author: Bongo 30 January 2011 01:36:57AM 0 points [-]

Indeed, you could have any mapping from pairs of (probability distributions over) actions to box-states, where the first element of the pair is what you would do if you saw a filled box B, and the second element is what you would do if you saw an empty box B. But I'm trying to preserve the spirit of the original Newcomb.

Comment author: Bongo 30 January 2011 01:32:56AM *  0 points [-]

Sorry, decided that comment wasn't ready and deleted it, but you managed to see it. See my other comment.