On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Employ a quantum noise source to generate a random decision. With it, generate a very slightly unbalanced coin flip. Use it to decide on one box vs. two boxes. Give "one box" a very slight advantage. The only rational choice for the oracle is to bet on "one box". You get 1 million with a probability of 0.51111 or the full 1.01 million with a probability of 0.49999. Telmo. > > > 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. > -- 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.
