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DanielLC comments on Open thread, 3-8 June 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanielLC 09 June 2014 08:53:41PM 1 point [-]

If I wanted to thwart or discredit pseudo-Omega, I could base my decision on a source of randomness. This brings me out of reach of any real-world attempt at setting up the Newcomblike problem.

It's not a zero-sum game. Using randomness means pseudo-Omega will guess wrong, so he'll lose, but it doesn't mean that he'll guess you'll one-box, so you don't win. There is no mixed Nash equilibrium. The only Nash equilibrium is to always one-box.