somervta 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: polarix 10 September 2013 02:13:45PM *  0 points [-]

I did not interpret paragraph 3 to contain any information about prior payouts... For instance, if one were to 1-box (successfully!) in every case that did not have such a lottery hedge, it would appear consistent with the problem statement to me.

Comment author: somervta 10 September 2013 08:58:11PM 0 points [-]

You previously played the game with Omega and the Numerical Lottery a few thousand times before.

it tells you that there were prior payouts.

Comment author: polarix 11 September 2013 05:03:08AM 0 points [-]

Ah, well, it tells us that there were prior games.

Comment author: somervta 11 September 2013 05:31:40AM 0 points [-]

If I didn't get prior payouts from those games, the updates on that is way bigger than any other reasoning such as what we're doing on this thread.