Yosarian2 comments on Why do theists, undergrads, and Less Wrongers favor one-boxing on Newcomb? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yosarian2 25 June 2013 07:11:28PM 1 point [-]

It's also worth mentioning that in the initial wording of the problem, unlike Eliezer's wording, it was just stated that the predictor is "almost certain" to have predicted correctly about which boxes you are going to take, and it was also specifically stated that there is no reverse causality going on (that what you actually decide to do now has no effect on what is in the boxes.)