I am the only person who doesn’t really understand the Omega analogy?
I can see some similarities, as Newcomb’s problem involves predictions, but here Omega isn’t trying to nudge you to do what it predicts you will do, but instead tries to make sure that you benefit from one-boxing, instead of two boxing. Is the similarity any greater than Omega being really good at predictions in both cases.
Omega also feels out-of-place to me. While it feels like the Web exists as a Thing with properties which can lead attitudes / etc. to propagate, painting it as the archetypal omniscient alien we’ve come to know doesn’t really fit.
I am the only person who doesn’t really understand the Omega analogy?
I can see some similarities, as Newcomb’s problem involves predictions, but here Omega isn’t trying to nudge you to do what it predicts you will do, but instead tries to make sure that you benefit from one-boxing, instead of two boxing. Is the similarity any greater than Omega being really good at predictions in both cases.
Omega also feels out-of-place to me. While it feels like the Web exists as a Thing with properties which can lead attitudes / etc. to propagate, painting it as the archetypal omniscient alien we’ve come to know doesn’t really fit.