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AABoyles comments on Simulation argument meets decision theory - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: pallas 24 September 2014 10:47AM

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Comment author: Manfred 25 September 2014 07:16:09PM 6 points [-]

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,"

Comment author: AABoyles 26 September 2014 04:43:28PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for pointing this out. I (clearly) missed the thinly veiled Newcomb-likeness of this puzzle.