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Comment author: ChristianKl 23 April 2015 09:44:03PM 0 points [-]

In terms of the original problem, if you're the kind of person who would pay the oracle if you were approached, you're causing the oracle to approach you, so you're paying for nothing.

I don't think that it's specified in the OP that the oracle considers it likely that you will pay or indeed approaches people based on their likelihood to pay.

Comment author: Elo 26 April 2015 10:18:00PM 1 point [-]

but it is! it really depends on how many levels of "If I know that the oracle knows that I know" you want to go into. Because if the oracle is able to factor in your decision to pay or not in whether they tell you that you should pay then thats a super-duper-oracle.

Also paying and dying is permissable and not great either.

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