FAWS comments on Counterfactual Calculation and Observational Knowledge - Less Wrong
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The problem is symmetrical. You can just copy everything, replace odd with even and vice versa and multiply everything with 0.5, then you also have the worlds where you see odd and Omega offers you to replace the result in counterfactuals where it came up even and where Q has the same parity. Doesn't change that Q is the same in the world that decides and the counterfactuals that are effected. Omega also transposing your choice to impossible worlds (or predicting what would happen in impossible worlds and imposing that on what happens in real worlds) would be a different problem (that violates that Q be the same in the counterfactual, but seems to be the problem you solved).