benelliott comments on Is Omega Impossible? Can we even ask? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 25 October 2012 02:41:18PM *  3 points [-]

A newcomb's problem set with a gratuitous infallible predictor is inferior to a newcomb's problem set with a currently-implementable but imperfect prediction algorithm. Wouldn't you agree?

No, in maths you want to pick the simplest possible thing that embodies the principle you want to study, needless complications are distracting. Throwing in a probabilistic element to something that works fine as a deterministic problem is needless.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 25 October 2012 03:24:52PM 1 point [-]

Throwing in a probabilistic element to something that works fine as a deterministic problem is needed.

Typo?

Comment author: benelliott 25 October 2012 03:32:10PM 0 points [-]

Yes, thanks