However to think about Newcomb’s problem entails “casting yourself” as the agent and predictor both, with a theoretically unlimited amount of time to consider strategies for the agent to defeat the predictor, as well as for the predictor to defeat the agent.
I don’t think so. Newcomb’s problem is meant to be a simple situation where an agent must act in an environment more computationally powerful than itself. The perspective is very much meant to be that of the agent. If you think that figuring out how to act in an environment more powerful than yourself is uninteresting, you must be pretty bored, since that describes the situation all of us find ourselves in.
I don’t think so. Newcomb’s problem is meant to be a simple situation where an agent must act in an environment more computationally powerful than itself. The perspective is very much meant to be that of the agent. If you think that figuring out how to act in an environment more powerful than yourself is uninteresting, you must be pretty bored, since that describes the situation all of us find ourselves in.