2021-11-12 at 2:30 PM UTC
Alright.
A superintelligence from another galaxy, whom we shall call Omega, comes to Earth and sets about playing a strange little game. In this game, Omega selects a human being, sets down two boxes in front of them, and flies away.
Box A is transparent and contains a thousand dollars.
Box B is opaque, and contains either a million dollars, or nothing.
You can take both boxes, or take only box B.
And the twist is that Omega has put a million dollars in box B if Omega has predicted that you will take only box B.
Omega has been correct on each of 100 observed occasions so far - everyone who took both boxes has found box B empty and received only a thousand dollars; everyone who took only box B has found B containing a million dollars. (We assume that box A vanishes in a puff of smoke if you take only box B; no one else can take box A afterward.)
Before you make your choice, Omega has flown off and moved on to its next game. Box B is already empty or already full.
Omega drops two boxes on the ground in front of you and flies off.
Do you take A+B, or only B?
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2021-11-12 at 2:35 PM UTC
damn this reminds me of the ASVAB hold my beer while I wax FILAsophical ill be thinking on this and post an update when i decide how 2 proceed
2021-11-12 at 3:01 PM UTC
If you don't take A+B you are a fucking idiot
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2021-11-12 at 3:28 PM UTC
I've been thinking about it 🤔 and it seems it I take box B then box A is gone FOREVER, I deprive anyone els from being able to choose it so so I like the idea of that ( especially knowing what I know now, that doing so will make anyone who plays after me a Millionair e. But it's a little bit unclear how much of this info we would get upfront honestly
Cause this could be one of those things where you're like kr0zes dad saying "Doug... You're trying to outsmart the game and pick an option that doesn't exist, just play the game by the rules.. "
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2021-11-12 at 4:13 PM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai
You know that Box A has $1000 in it, and you know that if Omega predicted you'd take only Box B it'll have $1,000,000 in it. You also know that Omega is really fucking good at predicting what you'll pick.
hmmm this is a tricky one, reminds me of the ASVAB
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2021-11-12 at 4:16 PM UTC
I shit in both boxes and leave
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2021-11-12 at 4:24 PM UTC
Grylls
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Lol
It’s A+B dickheads cause then you get both
And this question is designed to make you go skitzo so don’t read into it
2021-11-12 at 4:48 PM UTC
Grylls
Cum Looking Faggot
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Option C then, which is box C cause you gotta think outside the box
2021-11-12 at 5:52 PM UTC
>Before you make your choice, Omega has flown off and moved on to its next game. Box B is already empty or already full.
Even if you believe in hard determinism and that Omega truly is prescient the entire question is void. You choose what you choose, better to exist in the universe where you choose just B I guess but you don't, ironically, have any choice in that.
You really have to believe in retro-causality to think B only is optimal. In which case you're fucked. Living in back-to-the-future world is worse than living in cthulhu world. Spoopy eldritch terror is nothing in the face a past that shifts like sand.
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2021-11-12 at 6:59 PM UTC
I’d take B. Also lol. Fuck you Lucy.
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