Kip :
The Newcombe problem only needs about 30 seconds thought: as soon as you’ve postulated reversed causality, any reasoning based on the premise ‘there’s 1m€ in box B at the moment of decision’ breaks down on the meaninglessness of the notion ‘at the moment of decision’ under reversed causality. Are all ‘philosophical paradoxes’ so trite ? At least I suppose while people are ‘exercising their thinking’ over such trivialities they’re not doing us serious harm by working on self-improving AI.
Kip : The Newcombe problem only needs about 30 seconds thought: as soon as you’ve postulated reversed causality, any reasoning based on the premise ‘there’s 1m€ in box B at the moment of decision’ breaks down on the meaninglessness of the notion ‘at the moment of decision’ under reversed causality. Are all ‘philosophical paradoxes’ so trite ? At least I suppose while people are ‘exercising their thinking’ over such trivialities they’re not doing us serious harm by working on self-improving AI.