Why not? It seems to me that to determine that the staple maximizer’s offer is fair, you need to look at the staple maximizer’s assessment of you in the impossible world where it gets control. That’s very similar to looking at Omega’s assessment of you in the impossible world where it’s deciding whether to give you the million. Or maybe I’m wrong, all this recursion is making me confused...
What I meant is, in my version of the problem, you don’t have to solve the problem (say what Omega does exactly) in order to formulate the problem, since “the staple maximizer’s assessment of you in the impossible world where it gets control” is part of the solution, not part of the problem specification.
Why not? It seems to me that to determine that the staple maximizer’s offer is fair, you need to look at the staple maximizer’s assessment of you in the impossible world where it gets control. That’s very similar to looking at Omega’s assessment of you in the impossible world where it’s deciding whether to give you the million. Or maybe I’m wrong, all this recursion is making me confused...
What I meant is, in my version of the problem, you don’t have to solve the problem (say what Omega does exactly) in order to formulate the problem, since “the staple maximizer’s assessment of you in the impossible world where it gets control” is part of the solution, not part of the problem specification.