I just did that to be consistent with the traditional formulation of Newcomb’s problem, it’s not relevant to the story. I needed some labels for the boxes, and “box A” and “box B” are not very descriptive and make it easy for the reader to forget which is which.
I don’t see the point of making the first box opaque, if you can open it and then decide whether to take the second box.
I just did that to be consistent with the traditional formulation of Newcomb’s problem, it’s not relevant to the story. I needed some labels for the boxes, and “box A” and “box B” are not very descriptive and make it easy for the reader to forget which is which.