cousin_it comments on Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 22 July 2010 09:22:20AM *  0 points [-]

Yes, this is a standard incomplete information problem. Yes, you can do the calculations at any convenient time, not necessarily before meeting Omega. (These calculations can't use the information that Omega exists, though.) No, it isn't quite as simple as you state: when you meet Omega, you have to calculate the counterfactual probability of you having met Upsilon instead, and so on.