Thomas comments on Anthropic Reasoning by CDT in Newcomb's Problem - Less Wrong

4 Post author: gRR 14 March 2012 12:44AM

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Comment author: Thomas 14 March 2012 09:25:23AM -1 points [-]

If you have just outsmarted the Omega and collected $1001000 - well, it was not the Omega, it was just an impostor or something.

You must always consider the possibility that this is not a real Omega. Be in the Newcomb case, in counterfactual mugging or anywhere else.