did you know there's a sufficient, probably complete simulacrum of you inside a newcomb predictor? HANG ON WE'LL GET YOU OUT OF THERE
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I'm looking at the description of the Newcomb paradox & don't understand why "take box A and storm out" isn't a considered option
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purely formally, you could choose A+B for an at least equally good outcome
I was thinking though, maybe you could coax computation worth more than $1M out of the predictor
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so the only reason to pick A over A+B is if it really, really pisses you off to be fucked with by a godlike entity
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and you wish to communicate you refuse to participate. The equivalent of flipping the predictor off
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