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14 Post author: Caspar42 29 June 2015 10:35AM

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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.