I meant that something takes the functional equivalent of Omega. There is a dissimilarity, but not enough to make it irrelevant. The point that Psychohistorian and I are making is that the problems have subtly contradictory premises, which I think the examples (including modified TSL) show. Because the premises are contradictory, you can assume away a different one in each case.
In the original TSL, TDT says “hey, it’s decided anyway whether I have cancer, so my choice doesn’t affect my cancer”. But in Newcomb’s problem, TDT says, “even though omega has decided the contents of the box, my choice affects my reward”.
If it maps over, why does TDT one box in Newcomb’s problem and smoke in the modified smoking lesion problem?
I meant that something takes the functional equivalent of Omega. There is a dissimilarity, but not enough to make it irrelevant. The point that Psychohistorian and I are making is that the problems have subtly contradictory premises, which I think the examples (including modified TSL) show. Because the premises are contradictory, you can assume away a different one in each case.
In the original TSL, TDT says “hey, it’s decided anyway whether I have cancer, so my choice doesn’t affect my cancer”. But in Newcomb’s problem, TDT says, “even though omega has decided the contents of the box, my choice affects my reward”.