Yes, the situation does say the bomb is there. But it also says the bomb isn’t there if you Left-box.
At the very least, this is a contradiction, which makes the scenario incoherent nonsense.
(I don’t think it’s actually true that “it also says the bomb isn’t there if you Left-box”—but if it did say that, then the scenario would be inconsistent, and thus impossible to interpret.)
This is misleading. What happens is that the situation you found yourself in doesn’t take place with significant measure. You live mostly in different situations, not this one.
It is misleading because Said’s perspective is to focus on the current situation, without regarding the other situations as decision relevant. From UDT perspective you are advocating, the other situations remain decision relevant, and that explains much of what you are talking about in other replies. But from that same perspective, it doesn’t matter that you live in the situation Said is asking about, so it’s misleading that you keep attention on this situation in your reply without remarking on how that disagrees with the perspective you are advocating in other replies.
In the parent comment, you say “it is, in virtually all possible worlds, that you live for free”. This is confusing: are you talking about the possible worlds within the situation Said was asking about, or also about possible worlds outside that situation? The distinction matters for the argument in these comments, but you are saying this ambiguously.
“So if you take the Left box, what actually, physically happens?”
You live. For free. Because the bomb was never there to begin with.
Yes, the situation does say the bomb is there. But it also says the bomb isn’t there if you Left-box.
At the very least, this is a contradiction, which makes the scenario incoherent nonsense.
(I don’t think it’s actually true that “it also says the bomb isn’t there if you Left-box”—but if it did say that, then the scenario would be inconsistent, and thus impossible to interpret.)
That’s what I’ve been saying to you: a contradiction.
And there are two ways to resolve it.
This is misleading. What happens is that the situation you found yourself in doesn’t take place with significant measure. You live mostly in different situations, not this one.
I don’t see how it is misleading. Achmiz asked what actually happens; it is, in virtually all possible worlds, that you live for free.
It is misleading because Said’s perspective is to focus on the current situation, without regarding the other situations as decision relevant. From UDT perspective you are advocating, the other situations remain decision relevant, and that explains much of what you are talking about in other replies. But from that same perspective, it doesn’t matter that you live in the situation Said is asking about, so it’s misleading that you keep attention on this situation in your reply without remarking on how that disagrees with the perspective you are advocating in other replies.
In the parent comment, you say “it is, in virtually all possible worlds, that you live for free”. This is confusing: are you talking about the possible worlds within the situation Said was asking about, or also about possible worlds outside that situation? The distinction matters for the argument in these comments, but you are saying this ambiguously.