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Instead of choosing a box, submit the source code of a program that decides whether or not to open a box. Then, the predictor reads the source code, puts money
by ThrustVectoring 12y ago
Instead of choosing a box, submit the source code of a program that decides whether or not to open a box. Then, the predictor reads the source code, puts money in boxes, and only then does your source code run and open boxes.
Now, imagine that there was a computer program that makes the same choices you do in the same situations, and the Predictor can read that source code before filling the boxes.
That's the intuition pump I use for thinking about Newcomb-like problems.
- Dn_Ab 12y agoI might be mistaken, but it seems to me that the predictor should also be able to solve the halting problem. Additionally, if the entity to which the source-code is a descriptor for is so simple that they can be predicted without full simulation, can we really say they had free will?
- Houshalter 12y agoThe program isn't given infinite time to run so its not a halting problem case.