notsonewuser 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: notsonewuser 11 September 2013 09:15:02PM 0 points [-]

evaluation of you as a one-boxer or two-boxer

Those are not the only precommitments one can make for this type of situation.

Comment author: bsterrett 11 September 2013 10:38:34PM 1 point [-]

Of course! I meant to say that Richard's line of thought was mistaken because it didn't take into account the (default) independence of Omega's choice of number and the Number Lottery's choice of number. Suggesting that there are only two possible strategies for approaching this problem was a consequence of my poor wording.