I read Neoreaction A Basilisk. I didn't like it. My review:https://carcinisation.com/2016/05/07/there-is-no-basilisk-in-neoreaction-a-basilisk/ …
@GrumplessGrinch Newcomb amounts to saying "here is X. X = 5, and also X = 10. Is X < 7?"
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@St_Rev errr. no. I honestly don't even know how you'd arrive at this belief. -
@GrumplessGrinch Okey-dokey. -
@St_Rev Sorry, let me rephrase. I am confused, why do you think that? -
@GrumplessGrinch The Predictor's choice is made before you, but also after you. There's a bunch of chaff in the setup to distract from this. -
@St_Rev No. The order of choosing is A. simulated me, B. the predictor, C. me now. A and C are the same but C doesn't know A. -
@GrumplessGrinch You just did it again, man.
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@GrumplessGrinch ie it's pure language game. -
@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch Yeah. Saying Newcomb works with imperfect predictors is like saying perpetual motion works when you relax 2LoT. -
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@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev If your predictor is imperfect it depends on *how* imperfect it is. -
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@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev Right. So what should I do about this basilisk post-singularity God-emperor? -
@TACJ Can you be more specific?
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@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch What? You can formalize it perfectly fine in terms of observations rather than invoking an omniscience assumption -
@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch you see this predictor play this game with many people before, and every time it has guessed right -
@Magic_of_expect
@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch Is Newcomb's paradox a dare/challenge?@sarahdoingthing
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