Newcomb’s Problem sometimes assumes Omega is right 99% of the time. What is that conditional on? If it’s just a base rate (Omega is right about 99% of people), what happens when you condition on having particular thoughts and modeling the problem on a particular level? (Maybe there exists a two-boxing lesion and you can become confident you don’t have it.) If it’s 99% conditional on anything you might think, e.g. because Omega has a full model of you but gets hit by a cosmic ray 1% of the time, isn’t it clearer to just assume Omega gets it 100% right? Is this explained somewhere?
Newcomb’s Problem sometimes assumes Omega is right 99% of the time. What is that conditional on? If it’s just a base rate (Omega is right about 99% of people), what happens when you condition on having particular thoughts and modeling the problem on a particular level? (Maybe there exists a two-boxing lesion and you can become confident you don’t have it.) If it’s 99% conditional on anything you might think, e.g. because Omega has a full model of you but gets hit by a cosmic ray 1% of the time, isn’t it clearer to just assume Omega gets it 100% right? Is this explained somewhere?