Caspar42 comments on Two-boxing, smoking and chewing gum in Medical Newcomb problems - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Khoth 29 June 2015 08:00:42PM *  0 points [-]

My problem with all this is, if hypothetical-me's decisionmaking process is made by genetics, why are you asking real-me what the decisionmaking process should be?

Real-me can come up with whatever logic and arguments, but hypothetical-me will ignore all that and choose by some other method.

(Traditional Newcomb is different, because in that case hypothetical-me can use the same decisionmaking process as real-me)

Comment author: Caspar42 29 June 2015 08:09:44PM 3 points [-]

So, what if one day you learned that hypothetical-you is the actual-you, that is, what if Omega actually came up to you right now and told you about the study etc. and put you into the "genetic Newcomb problem"?

Comment author: Khoth 29 June 2015 10:01:41PM 0 points [-]

Well, I can say that I'd two-box.

Does that mean I have the two-boxing gene?