CarlShulman comments on Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality - Less Wrong
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Because depending on the numbers in the setup your modified experiment doesn't get at the disagreement between one-boxer and two-boxers.
Here is an actual program (written in python) implementing the described experiment. It has two stages. The first part is just calibration intending to find out if the player is one boxing or two boxing. The second is a straightforward non iterated Newcomb problem. Some randomness is used to avoid the player to exactly know when calibration stops and test begin, but calibration part does not care at all if it will predict the player is a one boxer or a two boxer it is just intended to create an actual predictor behaving as described in Newcomb's.