Amazingly, this is the first time I have encountered Newcomb’s Paradox. Is there a succinct way of explaining why it is an interesting problem? I understand it’s formulation, but fail, as yet, to see the significance beyond illustrating importance of hidden assumptions.
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Your question is impossible to do justice within a single tweet, but the NP touches on thorny issues in, e.g., rationality, the fundamentals of decision theory, causality, artificial intelligence and whether we might possibly be living in a computer simulation.
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Jag TYCKTE jag kände igen ditt namn! Skulle precis fråga om du läst Johan Wästlunds blogg om Newcomb och där står ju ditt namn! http://wastlund.blogspot.com/2016/04/newcombs-lador-ar-du-en-enb-eller-en.html?m=1 …
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Han har en relaterad bloggpost från 2018 om en självkörande bil som kör mot rött ljus "for the hell of it". Jag skrev om den i förrgår, i mitt halvfärdiga bokmanus.
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I am a self-proclaimed one-boxer, but definitely not because I am trying to trick anyone, let alone the predictor.
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They all say that.
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