For the record: I completely agree with Said on this specific point. Bomb is a fair problem. Each decision theory entering this problem gets dealt the exact same hand.
FDT recommends that you knowingly choose to burn to death, when you could instead not choose to burn to death, and incur no bad consequences thereby. This is a clear failure.
No. Ironically, Bomb is an argument for FDT, not against it: for if I adhere to FDT, I will never* burn to death AND save myself $100 if I do face this predictor.
*never here means only 1 in 1 trillion trillion if you meet the predictor
For the record: I completely agree with Said on this specific point. Bomb is a fair problem. Each decision theory entering this problem gets dealt the exact same hand.
No. Ironically, Bomb is an argument for FDT, not against it: for if I adhere to FDT, I will never* burn to death AND save myself $100 if I do face this predictor.
*never here means only 1 in 1 trillion trillion if you meet the predictor