Well, the Bomb scenario is what we’re given. So the first paragraph you just wrote there is… irrelevant? Inapplicable? What’s the point of it? It’s answering a question that’s not being asked.
As for the last sentence of your comment, I don’t understand what you mean by it. Certainly it’s possible for you to Left-box; you just go ahead and Left-box. This would be a bad idea, of course! Because you’d burn to death. But you could do it! You just shouldn’t—a point on which we, apparently, agree.
The bottom line is: to the actual single question the scenario asks—which box do you choose, finding yourself in the given situation?—we give the same answer. Yes?
The bottom line is: to the actual single question the scenario asks—which box do you choose, finding yourself in the given situation?—we give the same answer. Yes?
The bottom line is that Bomb is a decision problem. If I am still free to make a decision (which I suppose I am, otherwise it isn’t much of a problem), then the decision I make is made at 2 points in time. And then, Left-boxing is the better decision.
Yes, the Bomb is what we’re given. But with the very reasonable assumption of subjunctive dependence, it specifies what I am saying...
We agree that if I would be there, I would Right-box, but also everybody would then Right-box, as a logical necessity (well, 1 in a trillion trillion error rate, sure). It has nothing to do with correct or incorrect decisions, viewed like that: the decision is already hard coded into the problem statement, because of the subjunctive dependence.
“But you can just Left-box” doesn’t work: that’s like expecting one calculator to answer to 2 + 2 differently than another calculator.
Well, the Bomb scenario is what we’re given. So the first paragraph you just wrote there is… irrelevant? Inapplicable? What’s the point of it? It’s answering a question that’s not being asked.
As for the last sentence of your comment, I don’t understand what you mean by it. Certainly it’s possible for you to Left-box; you just go ahead and Left-box. This would be a bad idea, of course! Because you’d burn to death. But you could do it! You just shouldn’t—a point on which we, apparently, agree.
The bottom line is: to the actual single question the scenario asks—which box do you choose, finding yourself in the given situation?—we give the same answer. Yes?
The bottom line is that Bomb is a decision problem. If I am still free to make a decision (which I suppose I am, otherwise it isn’t much of a problem), then the decision I make is made at 2 points in time. And then, Left-boxing is the better decision.
Yes, the Bomb is what we’re given. But with the very reasonable assumption of subjunctive dependence, it specifies what I am saying...
We agree that if I would be there, I would Right-box, but also everybody would then Right-box, as a logical necessity (well, 1 in a trillion trillion error rate, sure). It has nothing to do with correct or incorrect decisions, viewed like that: the decision is already hard coded into the problem statement, because of the subjunctive dependence.
“But you can just Left-box” doesn’t work: that’s like expecting one calculator to answer to 2 + 2 differently than another calculator.