dclayh 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: whpearson 06 April 2009 09:36:58PM 1 point [-]

Maximising your financial return entails that you make omega's prediction wrong, if you can get it to predict that you one box when you actually two box, you maximise your financial return.

Comment author: dclayh 06 April 2009 10:36:22PM 3 points [-]

My point is merely that getting Omega to predict wrong is easy (flip a coin). Getting an expectation value higher than $1 million is what's hard (and likely impossible, if Omega is much smarter than you, as Eliezer says above).