Vaniver comments on Newcomblike problems are the norm - Less Wrong

39 Post author: So8res 24 September 2014 06:41PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 25 September 2014 05:40:43PM *  1 point [-]

What I meant was that the accuracy impacts how much "pick up" you can get from a better theory.

Agreed. Because of the simplicity of Newcomb's proper, I think this is going to make for an unimpressive graph, though: the rewards are linear in Omega's accuracy P, so it should just be a simple piecewise function for the clever theory, diverging from the two-boxer at the low accuracy and eventually reaching the increase of $999,000 at P=1.