ArisKatsaris 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: ArisKatsaris 13 September 2013 08:59:56PM *  0 points [-]

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Both boxes -- I want the number to be composite, so I want Omega to have selected a composite number, which he'd have more chances of doing if I two-boxed.

EDIT: wedrifid's explanation has now mostly convinced me that one-boxing is correct instead. (My expressed logic was too much EDT-influenced, I think)

Comment author: wedrifid 14 September 2013 01:58:17AM 0 points [-]

Both boxes -- I want the number to be composite, so I want Omega to have selected a composite number, which he'd have more chances of doing if I two-boxed.

You want the number to be composite, so you also want the Numerical Lottery's random number generator to have selected a composite number. That's trickier to influence.