Look, surely in your diagram there is more than just the one fork, right? You could have a heart attack, get struck by a meteor, commit suicide, take a sudden vow of poverty or whatever. Point is, there’s a zero box fork, right? So what does the cow do when you will zero box?
See the trick? The whole one-box or two-box was a false binary all along. How has the everett fork where you had your heart attack play out? No quantum dice required, the cow has always been a fraud!
Except not, because it’s just a logic puzzle. It doesn’t need to consider the fork where you zero box. You are given as a profit maximizer. The cow is given as able to discern your future actions (including futile efforts at randomization). These are just parts of the question, same as the jail being inescapable in prisoner’s dilemma.
It feels like you are circling (grazing?) around to being right. Like, earlier when you got to “In that case, you one-box.”, you were there. ‘That case’ is the base case, the case that we all mean when we say ″Cow’s problem’.
Look, surely in your diagram there is more than just the one fork, right? You could have a heart attack, get struck by a meteor, commit suicide, take a sudden vow of poverty or whatever. Point is, there’s a zero box fork, right? So what does the cow do when you will zero box?
See the trick? The whole one-box or two-box was a false binary all along. How has the everett fork where you had your heart attack play out? No quantum dice required, the cow has always been a fraud!
Except not, because it’s just a logic puzzle. It doesn’t need to consider the fork where you zero box. You are given as a profit maximizer. The cow is given as able to discern your future actions (including futile efforts at randomization). These are just parts of the question, same as the jail being inescapable in prisoner’s dilemma.
It feels like you are circling (grazing?) around to being right. Like, earlier when you got to “In that case, you one-box.”, you were there. ‘That case’ is the base case, the case that we all mean when we say ″Cow’s problem’.
It’s not a cow, it’s a bull :-D