Hi! Transparent Newcomb means you consider Newcomb’s problem but the box is transparent so the agent knows whether it’s empty or full. We then need to specify which counterfactual Omega predicts (agent seeing empty box, agent seeing full box, or some combination of both) but for our present purpose it doesn’t matter. EDT is undefined because e.g. if you see a full-box in the relevant counterfactual then you cannot condition on two-boxing. This can be circumvented by adding a little noise, i.e. a small probability of Omega mispredicting.
Hi Vanessa, what is a transparent Newcomb with noise? Any reference or link? Many thanks in advance.
Hi! Transparent Newcomb means you consider Newcomb’s problem but the box is transparent so the agent knows whether it’s empty or full. We then need to specify which counterfactual Omega predicts (agent seeing empty box, agent seeing full box, or some combination of both) but for our present purpose it doesn’t matter. EDT is undefined because e.g. if you see a full-box in the relevant counterfactual then you cannot condition on two-boxing. This can be circumvented by adding a little noise, i.e. a small probability of Omega mispredicting.