#newcomb #oneboxer #philosophy
I've heard people still disagree about the Newcomb's problem. I think it is silly to be a 2-boxer, so I wrote a little paper about it: philarchive.org/rec/NILNPU
While the main analysis won't convince an insistent 2-boxer, I think, the discussion does suggest that...
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Andre Sevenius Nilsen, Newcomb's Paradox Under Epistemic Uncertainty: A Two-Stage Policy Analysis - PhilArchive
Newcomb’s paradox is still debated despite its deceptively simple setup. Here we introduce a two-stage policy framework parametrized by pre-entry and in-room 1-boxing propensities (α,β), predictor err...