cousin_it comments on Newcomb's Problem standard positions - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 April 2009 05:05PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 06 April 2009 08:15:43PM *  1 point [-]

You have escalated the mystical power of Omega - surely it's no longer just a human friend who knows you well - supporting my point about the quoted passage. If your new Omegas aren't yet running full simulations (a case resolved by indexical uncertainty) but rather some kind of coarse-grained approximations, then I should have enough sub-pixel and off-scene freedom to condition my action on 2F's response with neither 1F nor 2F knowing it. If you have some other mechanism of how Omega might work, please elaborate: I need to understand an Omega to screw it up.