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Creutzer comments on Two-boxing, smoking and chewing gum in Medical Newcomb problems - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Creutzer 30 June 2015 10:45:02AM -1 points [-]

Of course, when I examined the thing's source code, I knew it would reason this way, and so I did not put the million.

Then you're talking about an evil decision problem. But neither in the original nor in the genetic Newcombe's problem is your source code investigated.

Comment author: Unknowns 30 June 2015 11:14:38AM 1 point [-]

No, it is not an evil decision problem, because I did that not because of the particular reasoning, but because of the outcome (taking both boxes).

The original does not specify how Omega makes his prediction, so it may well be by investigating source code.

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