There is a contradiction here between “lucky” and “coin flip”. Why does he get lucky on Earth?
I don’t see the contradiction. C-Omega tries the same con on billions and billions of planets, and it happens that out of those billions of trials, on Earth his predictions all came true.
Asking why Earth is rather like asking why Regina Jackson won the lottery—it was bound to happen somewhere, where ever that was you could ask the same question.
In the original problem Omega runs a simulation of you, which is equivalent to T-Omega.
I could not find the word “simulation” mentioned in any of the summaries nor the full restatements that are found on LessWrong, in particular Newcomb’s problem.
Nor was I able to find that word in the formulation as it appeared in Martin Gardner’s column published in Scientific American, nor in the rec.puzzles archive. Perhaps it went by some other term?
Can you cite something that mentions simulation as the method used (or for that matter, explicitly states any method Omega uses)?
I don’t see the contradiction. C-Omega tries the same con on billions and billions of planets, and it happens that out of those billions of trials, on Earth his predictions all came true.
Asking why Earth is rather like asking why Regina Jackson won the lottery—it was bound to happen somewhere, where ever that was you could ask the same question.
I could not find the word “simulation” mentioned in any of the summaries nor the full restatements that are found on LessWrong, in particular Newcomb’s problem. Nor was I able to find that word in the formulation as it appeared in Martin Gardner’s column published in Scientific American, nor in the rec.puzzles archive. Perhaps it went by some other term?
Can you cite something that mentions simulation as the method used (or for that matter, explicitly states any method Omega uses)?