sixes_and_sevens comments on The Ultimate Newcomb's Problem - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 September 2013 02:03AM

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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 10 September 2013 10:00:33AM 6 points [-]

Reading this was like hearing Vincent Price saying "your payoff matrices are useless here! Ahahahaha!" That was a legitimate source of epistemic dread.

It took me about a minute of turning it over to fully grok the structure of the problem, at which point I settled on two-boxing, which va guvf pnfr, jvgu guvf ahzore, yrnirf zr ubyqvat n zrer gubhfnaq qbyynef, orpnhfr guvf vf bar bs gur 0.01% bs havirefrf jurer Bzrtn jnf jebat.

I am pretty solidly sold on two-boxing at the moment, under the absurd-sounding premise that I can influence whether or not the number is prime with my decision. I really hope time travel isn't possible.

Comment author: khafra 10 September 2013 11:40:01AM 6 points [-]

Yes, I saw attempting to ambiently control basic arithmetic as the obvious solution here, too.