shminux comments on Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 16 October 2012 03:14:59PM 0 points [-]

I don't understand this.

In Newcomb's problem, Omega knows what you will do using their superintelligence. Since you know you cannot two-box successfully, you should one-box.

If Omega didn't know what you would do with a fair degree of accuracy, two-boxing would work, obviously.

Comment author: shminux 17 October 2012 12:29:49AM -1 points [-]

Since you know you cannot two-box successfully, you should one-box.

Not if you mistakenly believe, as CDTers do, in human free will in a predictable (by Omega) universe.

Comment author: wedrifid 17 October 2012 12:42:31AM *  1 point [-]

Not if you mistakenly believe, as CDTers do, in human free will in a predictable (by Omega) universe.

"Free will" isn't incompatible with a predictable (by Omega) universe. I also doubt that all CDTers believe the same thing about human free will in said universe.