Sometimes people dismiss Newcomb's problem because of the physical impossibility of a being like Omega. However, Newcomb's problem does not actually depend on the possibility of Omega in order to be relevant. Similar issues arise if weone can imagine a skilled human psychologist who can predict other people's actions with 65% accuracy.accuracy in similar situations.
Sometimes people dismiss Newcomb's problem because of the physical impossibility of a being like Omega. However, Newcomb's problem does not actually depend on the possibility of Omega in order to be relevant. Similar issues arise if
one canwe imagine a skilled human psychologist who can predict other people's actions with 65% accuracy in similar situations.