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  1. #21
    Meikai Heck This Schlong
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Source? I see no mention of it in the text.

    You're aware of everything in the text when you make your decision. You're aware Omega is a superintelligence from another galaxy. You're aware of the 100 previous iterations of the game. Because you read the text. That's how these things work, Jig.

    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson You are moving the goal posts…

    You are choosing to take both boxes by means of another human, ie... you are choosing to take both boxes.

    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Also if Omega dropped the boxes and then went on to the next project…how was he observing the results?

    Omega doesn't care about observing the results. Omega just puts money in boxes based on predictions he makes about your future actions, then drops them at your feet.
  2. #22
    Ok if I am aware when Omega drops the boxes I shoot him dead, take both boxes, take his dead alien body, and take his spacecraft...I sell the spacecraft to China for 100 billion dollars and the alien body to Russia (after having sex with it) for 1 million.

    Eta I toss the boxes to the nearest homeless person.
  3. #23
    Meikai Heck This Schlong
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Ok if I am aware when Omega drops the boxes I shoot him dead, take both boxes, take his dead alien body, and take his spacecraft…I sell the spacecraft to China for 100 billion dollars and the alien body to Russia (after having sex with it) for 1 million.

    Eta I toss the boxes to the nearest homeless person.

    It's okay Jig, we have your answer. Two boxes. It's okay to be a two boxer. A guaranteed $1000 is a guaranteed $1000! Who cares if your odds of getting more are vanishingly slim, and some mongoloid who picks B's odds of winning less than you are equally slim. You'll win every time. The mongoloids will only win way more 99% of the time, so who's laughing at the end of the day? You are, probably. Like a madman, all the way to the cheque cashing place that also accepts trades on stolen gold jedielry. Never mind those silly one boxers on their way to an actual bank.
  4. #24
    Another scenario...I smash the boxes open. I then take the contents of the boxes...not the boxes themselves.

    Omega is thwarted again...there are dozens of ways to out smart this "puzzle"
  5. #25
    Grylls Cum Looking Faggot [abrade this vocal tread-softly]
    I’ll give you both $500 each to shut the FUCK UP
  6. #26
    Meikai Heck This Schlong
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Another scenario…I smash the boxes open. I then take the contents of the boxes…not the boxes themselves.

    Omega is thwarted again…there are dozens of ways to out smart this "puzzle"



    Originally posted by Grylls I’ll give you both $500 each to shut the FUCK UP

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  7. #27
    Originally posted by Meikai It's okay Jig, we have your answer. Two boxes. It's okay to be a two boxer. A guaranteed $1000 is a guaranteed $1000! Who cares if your odds of getting more are vanishingly slim, and some mongoloid who picks B's odds of winning less than you are equally slim. You'll win every time. The mongoloids will only win way more 99% of the time, so who's laughing at the end of the day? You are, probably. Like a madman, all the way to the cheque cashing place that also accepts trades on stolen gold jedielry. Never mind those silly one boxers on their way to an actual bank.

    The boxes are irrelevant if I have a dead alien body and spacecraft on my possession lol..conventional thinking gets you $1000...enjoy it
  8. #28
    Originally posted by Meikai

    thwarted
  9. #29
    Grylls Cum Looking Faggot [abrade this vocal tread-softly]
    Originally posted by Meikai ETH: 0xCc33083FD49958562347FB20A0669610fF1dCB7C

    wat
  10. #30
    Jeff Hunter did 9/11
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  11. #31
    Grylls doesn't have $1000 to give us 500 each. He spent it all on lego
  12. #32
    Originally posted by Endarkenment This is a real mindfuck

    Only if you limit yourself to conventional thinking.
  13. #33
    Grylls Cum Looking Faggot [abrade this vocal tread-softly]
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Grylls doesn't have $1000 to give us 500 each. He spent it all on lego

    I’ve spent a lot more than that on Lego, it’s expensive

    Why do you care? How desperate can you be for a grand lol
  14. #34
    mmQ Lisa Turtle
    I would ask Plantessi and do what she advised.

    Can you draw me a picture of Omega please? I would like to know what its wings look like or is it flying by other means ?

    Thank you.
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  15. #35
    Originally posted by Grylls I’ve spent a lot more than that on Lego, it’s expensive

    Why do you care? How desperate can you be for a grand lol

    If someone offers me $500 to shut up they better have $500 when I'm silent...or they'll be finding themselves shitting (lego) bricks.
  16. #36
    Originally posted by mmQ I would ask Plantessi and do what she advised.

    Can you draw me a picture of Omega please? I would like to know what its wings look like or is it flying by other means ?

    Thank you.

    Other means I expect, the aforementioned space vehicle, wings wont do you much good flying through space. You'd be flapping those things forever and not getting anywhere.
  17. #37
    Grylls Cum Looking Faggot [abrade this vocal tread-softly]
    I said shhhhh £500 now
  18. #38
    frala Avant garde shartist
    Originally posted by Endarkenment This is a real mindfuck

    Is it though?

    Bc I mean, we are debating between $1,000 (big deal-fuck the grand you don’t need it-why are you even sweating it this philosophically) or $1,000,000. And if you end up with the million well then hooray and if you don’t well then life is what it always was.
  19. #39
    Originally posted by Grylls I said shhhhh £500 now

    I'm not speaking young negro...you owe me $500 of your Earth Dollars.
  20. #40
    mmQ Lisa Turtle
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Other means I expect, the aforementioned space vehicle, wings wont do you much good flying through space. You'd be flapping those things forever and not getting anywhere.

    They could be special space wings.

    How is this a paradox? Why wouldn't you choose box B ?
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