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Newcomb's Paradox with a twist 1 Year, 10 Months ago
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First here's Newcomb's paradox:
Given two boxes, B1 which contains $1000 and B2 which contains either nothing or a million dollars, you may pick either B2 or both. However, at some time before the choice is made, an omniscient Being has predicted what your decision will be and filled B2 with a million dollars if he expects you to take it, or with nothing if he expects you to take both.
The person who intends to make the choice is going to be using x-ray glasses to see through B2 so he'll know if the omniscient being has placed a million dollars in it or not. If the person sees a million dollars in B2, he'll take both the boxes. If the person sees nothing in B2, he'll take B2 and forgo the $1000 just to prove the omniscient being wrong.
The question is, how does the omniscient being decide how much money to put in B2?
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Re:Newcomb's Paradox with a twist 1 Year, 9 Months ago
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I edited it slightly, I'll just try to answer my own question here. The omniscient being has two choices: put nothing in B2 or put a million dollars in B2.
If it puts nothing in B2, then the person will just take B2 which would mean the omniscient being is mistaken and predicted his actions incorrectly since he was supposed to get a million dollars if he just took B2 alone.
If it puts a million dollars in B2, then the person will take both boxes which would mean the omniscient being is mistaken and predicted his actions incorrectly since he was supposed to only get a million dollars if he picked B2 alone and not pick both boxes.
No matter which choice the omniscient being makes, the omniscient being will be wrong and predicted his actions incorrectly. By having x-ray glasses he's able to see the omniscient being's prediction and defy it.
It would be similar to an omniscient being telling me what i'll have for dinner today then I just choose to have something else.
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Re:Newcomb's Paradox with a twist 1 Year, 9 Months ago
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woohoo! I stumped you all!!! I'm the best philosopher ever!!!!
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Re:Newcomb's Paradox with a twist 1 Year, 9 Months ago
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What you said is helpful!
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Re:Newcomb's Paradox with a twist 1 Year, 9 Months ago
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The omniscient being decides to know that you, the chooser, are with Him on the decision that you never forgo a thousand dollars. But you say that you, the chooser, are better than Him by believing what you perceive in all excellent vanity is the second box with the thousand. Being with the creator makes Him grateful that you can also get Portia at the court case where the ambitious millionaire wants your pound of flesh.
Good one, only if the humble God loses to the marvelous cynicism of Bessanio's wish to outwit the superiority issue as a temporary insanity for the BITCHY Portia. Cynicism can be stopped by God.
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