On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tim May wrote:
> -- Newcomb's Paradox (discussed in Pearl, Joyce, Nozick, etc.)
This is no paradox, it is a silly question with an obvious answer that a
lot of smart people have wasted a lot of time over.
You mug the alien and take both boxes. Hence if the alien could -really-
predict what every human would do it wouldn't have offered the box to you
in the first place.
The answer is "The only way to win is not to play the game."
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