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Andreas_Giger comments on Can anyone explain to me why CDT two-boxes? - Less Wrong Discussion

-12 Post author: Andreas_Giger 02 July 2012 06:06AM

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Comment author: Andreas_Giger 02 July 2012 06:49:30AM 0 points [-]

and your decision now can't change that

So what you're saying is that CDT refuses the whole setup and then proceeds to solve a completely different problem, correct?

Comment author: see 02 July 2012 07:26:46AM 2 points [-]

Well, Nozick's formulation in 1969, which popularized the problem in philosophy, went ahead and specified that "what you actually decide to do is not part of the explanation of why he made the prediction he made".

Which means smuggling in a theory of unidirectional causality into the very setup itself, which explains how it winds up called "Newcomb's Paradox" instead of Newcomb's Problem.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 July 2012 09:00:36AM 1 point [-]

So what you're saying is that CDT refuses the whole setup and then proceeds to solve a completely different problem, correct?

No.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 02 July 2012 07:11:43AM -1 points [-]

No, it's just not aware that it could be running inside Omega's head.

Comment author: drethelin 02 July 2012 07:19:30AM 0 points [-]

Another way of putting it is that CDT doesn't model entities as modeling it.