TobyBartels comments on You're in Newcomb's Box - LessWrong

40 Post author: HonoreDB 05 February 2011 08:46PM

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Comment author: TobyBartels 07 February 2011 08:23:03PM 1 point [-]

my point is simply that "I already know Azathoth's prediction" is not a good argument.

OK, I agree with that. What matters is not what I happen to know but that Azathoth's one-boxing prediction (right or wrong) is guaranteed by the formulation of the problem itself.