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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

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I was thinking though, maybe you could coax computation worth more than $1M out of the predictor

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this is hard though since the effort is symmetrical; maybe if works if the predictor classically simulates quantum decisions?

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the problem I see with your proposal really is it may assume we get multiple gos to extract multiple bits

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unless you can find a truly valuable 1 bit computation not requiring foresight of far-future events