I started quite a lively debate at work recently by bringing up Newcomb's Paradox. We debated topics ranging from the prisoner's dilemma to the halting problem, from free will to retro causality, from first person indeterminacy to Godel's incompleteness.
My colleagues were about evenly split between one-boxing and two-boxing, and I was curious if there would be any more consensus among the members of this list. If you're unfamiliar with the problem there are descriptions here: http://www.philosophyexperiments.com/newcomb/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27s_paradox If you reach a decision, please reply with whether your strategy would be to take one box or two, what assumptions you make, and why you think your strategy is best. I don't want to bias the results so I'll provide my answer in a follow-up post. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
