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Newcomb's Paradox
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RE: Newcomb's Paradox
January 28, 2023 at 9:08 pm
(January 28, 2023 at 8:47 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 28, 2023 at 8:27 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: I can defeat any amount of goodness in his ability to predict my decision by randomizing my decision,   So if he is really good at predicting my decisions, he would predict I would decide to make a random decision that he can not predict except by random chance.

According to the conundrum, the Predictor knows, without possibility of error, which choice you will make. Randomness is not a factor.

When answering a paradox, the respondents are not permitted to add provisos of their own.

Boru

If my choice is not to make the choice myself but let a flip of the coin decide?
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Newcomb's Paradox

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Newcomb's Paradox - by GrandizerII - January 28, 2023 at 12:40 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 28, 2023 at 1:43 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by brewer - January 28, 2023 at 2:29 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by zebo-the-fat - January 28, 2023 at 2:46 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 28, 2023 at 3:16 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by GrandizerII - January 28, 2023 at 9:50 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by GrandizerII - January 28, 2023 at 10:25 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by Silver - January 28, 2023 at 8:02 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by brewer - January 29, 2023 at 9:54 am
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by Anomalocaris - January 28, 2023 at 8:26 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by GrandizerII - January 28, 2023 at 9:36 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by Anomalocaris - January 28, 2023 at 8:27 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by Angrboda - January 28, 2023 at 8:34 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 28, 2023 at 8:47 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by Anomalocaris - January 28, 2023 at 9:08 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 29, 2023 at 4:56 am
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by Angrboda - January 28, 2023 at 9:37 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by Silver - January 28, 2023 at 9:39 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by Nay_Sayer - January 30, 2023 at 2:38 am
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 30, 2023 at 5:39 am
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by Objectivist - February 7, 2023 at 11:02 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by HappySkeptic - February 8, 2023 at 1:43 pm
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by Disagreeable - July 12, 2023 at 9:00 am
RE: Newcomb's Paradox - by arewethereyet - July 12, 2023 at 10:32 am

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