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@allgebrah

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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except with the extra oomph that you had to concretely harm yourself to do it

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also in certain forms of 70s sci fi taking box A only, or neither box, could potentially destroy the predictor, if you want that

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assuming it is a being of pure logic specified precisely by the problem statement and it has no decision tree for those outcomes

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since the paradox was written in 1969 it is possible if we are in the same universe with a predictor we are indeed in 70s sci fi

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"no, your stepfather is dead. your actual father is the only one who ever beat me, he has retired and is now fishing for salmon"

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wow this was much more obscure than I thought books.google.com/books?id=g195n

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nice

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i was considering responding with THERE IS NO SANCTUARRYYYYYY but then decided that wasn't obscure *enough*

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@mcclure111

I profess lack of knowledge, where is that from?

11:36 PM · Nov 10, 2016Twitter Web Client

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ah! well, you now know the ending of a movie, but not which movie.

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but if you want the forbidden SPOILERS knowledge type this into rot13.com : ybtnaf eha

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