lackofcheese comments on Simulation argument meets decision theory - Less Wrong Discussion
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The question is whether this is analogous to Newcomb's problem. After all, one can make the same argument you make that "no matter what the contents of the box, taking both boxes is the dominant strategy,"
It is analogous if and only if anthropic utility is coherent and reasonable.