I noticed we now live in a world where we can run Newcomb’s problem as an actual experiment, so I ran the experiment!
Roleplaying as the predictor in the Newcomb problem (with an LLM as the “decision maker”) finally made me grok why one-boxing is the correct solution to the original problem.
Solving Newcomb’s Paradox In Real Life
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I noticed we now live in a world where we can run Newcomb’s problem as an actual experiment, so I ran the experiment!
Roleplaying as the predictor in the Newcomb problem (with an LLM as the “decision maker”) finally made me grok why one-boxing is the correct solution to the original problem.
Wondering if anyone else feels the same way?