EHeller comments on Timelessness as a Conservative Extension of Causal Decision Theory

EHeller 30 May 2014 23:45 UTC
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The argument is that if Omega perfectly predicts your decision, then causally his prediction must be a descendant of your decision

The problem is that this can lead to inconsistency when you have two omegas trying to predict each other.
- Vaniver 31 May 2014 0:54 UTC
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  The problem is that this can lead to inconsistency when you have two omegas trying to predict each other.
  
  This is one of the arguments against the possibility of Laplace’s Demon, and I agree that a world with two Omegas is probably going to be inconsistent.
  - EHeller 31 May 2014 1:32 UTC
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    It should be noted that this also makes transparent Newcomb ill-posed because the transparent boxes make the box-picker essentially an omega.