SilasBarta comments on Tactics against Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 27 April 2013 08:17:06AM 0 points [-]

A closer rationalist analog of your #3 would be Newcomb's problem, in which you can't tell "from the inside" whether you're really in a Newcomblike situation, or Omega's simulation of you being in that situation, in order for Omega to decide what to put in the sealed box.