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

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Comment author: Kindly 03 July 2012 09:29:03PM 1 point [-]

Could you elaborate on this?

and if Omega doesn't tell you, then you might just as well be the copy itself, meaning that either you can't be predicted or you're not playing Newcomb.

That's certainly the situation I have in mind (although certainly Omega can tell both of you "I have made a copy of the person that walked into this room to simulate; you are either the copy or the original" or something to that effect). But I don't see how either one of "you can't be predicted or you're not playing Newcomb" makes sense.

Comment author: Andreas_Giger 04 July 2012 11:54:38AM 0 points [-]

If you're the copy that Omega bases its prediction of the other copy on, how does Omega predict you?

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