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Ha! =]
Okay, I DO expect to see lots of 'people are crazy, the world is mad' stuff, yeah, I just wouldn't expect to see it on something like this from the kind of people who work on things like Causal Decision Theory! :P
So I guess what I really want to do first is CHECK which option is really most popular among such people: two-boxing, or predictably choosing box B?
Problem is, I'm not sure how to perform that check. Can anyone help me there?
I think this is the position of classical theorists on self-modifiying agents:
From Rationality, Dispositions, and the Newcomb Paradox:
They agree that agents who can self-modify will take one box. But they call that action "irrational". So, the debate really boils down to the definition of the term "rational" - and is not really concerned with the decision that rational agents who can self-modifiy will actually take.
If my analysis here is correct, the dispute is really all about terminology.