DSherron comments on Newbomb's parabox - Less Wrong

-9 Post author: Locaha 01 July 2013 01:51PM

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Comment author: DSherron 01 July 2013 07:35:43PM 4 points [-]

God f*ing damn it. Again? He has 99.9% accuracy, problem resolved. Every decision remains identical unless a change of 1/1000 in your calculations causes a different action, which in Newcomboid problems it never should.

Note to anyone and everyone who encounters any sort of hypothetical with a "perfect" predictor; if you write it, always state an error rate, and if you read it then assume one (but not one higher than whatever error rate would make a TDT agent choose to two-box.)