mwengler comments on Newbomb's parabox - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: mwengler 01 July 2013 10:04:54PM *  0 points [-]

The mechanism can just store a reference to itself.

Actually this will not work. Since Omega would be running a simulation of the universe, including a simulation of his own simulation of the universe, the memory space for the simulation of the simulation and for the simulation would need to be distinct as they would not contain the same values as the simulation went on.