wedrifid comments on You're in Newcomb's Box - Less Wrong

40 Post author: HonoreDB 05 February 2011 08:46PM

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 01 February 2011 09:04:28PM *  3 points [-]

Rationalists should win.

In this scenario two-boxers get 200$ and exist, while one-boxers get 100$ and exist.

Two-boxers will be numerically fewer, because Prometheus is biased in favour of irrationality, but nonetheless it'll be two-boxers that'll be winning. That's the opposite of two-boxers in the Newcomb problem.

Comment author: HonoreDB 01 February 2011 10:43:15PM 25 points [-]

It looks like you're trying to trade decreased measure for increased utility.

Comment author: wedrifid 01 February 2011 11:21:09PM 0 points [-]

That is brilliant. Did you create it manually?

Comment author: HonoreDB 02 February 2011 12:38:27AM 0 points [-]

Thanks, I did. I'm sure there are generators for it, though.