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69 Post author: orthonormal 13 March 2012 11:31PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 March 2012 02:14:58PM 2 points [-]

Let's take a look at what happens in Newcomb's problem if we just grind through the math. We have

That's evidential decision theory, which gives the wrong answer to the smoking lesion problem.