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WarDaft20

It certainly seems like a simple resolution exists...

As a rationalist, there should only ever be one choice you make. It should be the ideal choice. If you are a perfectly rational person, you will only ever make the ideal choice. You are certainly at least, deterministic. If you can make the ideal choice, so can someone else. That means, if someone knows your exact situation (trivial in the Newcomb paradox, as the super intelligent agent is causing your situation) then they can predict exactly what you will do, even without being perfectly rational themse... (read more)

-2lessdazed
I think so too. Perhaps we've all heard a slightly different wording of the paradox (or more), but I don't see what causation has to do with it.
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