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mwengler comments on Is Omega Impossible? Can we even ask? - Less Wrong Discussion

-8 Post author: mwengler 24 October 2012 02:47PM

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Comment author: mwengler 25 October 2012 03:18:15PM 0 points [-]

I have seen numerous statements of Newcomb's problem where it is stated "Omega got the answer right 100 out of 100 times before." That is PATHETIC evidence to support Omega not being a con man and that is not a prior, that is post. So if there is a valuable edge case here (and I'm not sure there is), it has been left implicit until now.