Telmo, Very creative solution! I think you may have been the first to out-smart the super-intelligence. Although would you risk $1,000,000 to gain the extra $1,000 on the belief that the super intelligence hasn't figured out a way to predict or account for collapse? QM could always be wrong of course, or maybe the super intelligence knows we're in a simulation and has reverse engineered the state of the pseudorandom number generator used to give the appearance of collapse/splitting. :-)
Jason On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > -- 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.
