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2021-11-12 at 6:39 PM UTC in Newcomb's Paradox ThreadMe rn: If picking A+B was so smart then whycome you ain't rich like me?
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2021-11-12 at 6:20 PM UTC in Newcomb's Paradox Thread
Originally posted by Lanny >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.
You don't need to believe in determinism or true prescience, you just need to accept that the probability that Omega has guessed wrong is extremely low. Would you take a 100% chance at $1000, a 99.99999% chance at $1000000, or a 0.000001% chance at $1001000? Simple as.
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2021-11-12 at 5:19 PM UTC in Newcomb's Paradox Thread
Originally posted by Grylls 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
>he thinks it's A+B
In all seriousness though, you're in good company. Decision theorists (the brain geniuses who devote their lives to pondering this inane shit) overwhelmingly choose to take both boxes. It's obviously the wrong answer, but I can't fault anyone for choosing it. -
2021-11-12 at 3:36 PM UTC in Newcomb's Paradox Thread
Originally posted by I Live In Your Crawlspace Secretly4 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.. "
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. -
2021-11-12 at 3:14 PM UTC in Newcomb's Paradox Thread
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2021-11-12 at 2:30 PM UTC in Newcomb's Paradox ThreadAlright.
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? -
2021-11-12 at 4:47 AM UTC in Shit, I missed the temple.there was a point where i resented the highlighter thing just a little but honestly seeing it alongside those classic totse memes almost makes me feel a little proud
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2021-11-12 at 4:44 AM UTC in Shit, I missed the temple.hts is a tranny now (hi, it's me)
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2021-11-12 at 4:38 AM UTC in What game(s) have you been playing?gud game tho
terrible use of my time, and that's saying something because my time is basically worthless, but it's a gr8 experience -
2021-11-12 at 4:37 AM UTC in What game(s) have you been playing?i just wanna beat rdr 2 i've put like 70 hours into it and i wanna stop but i can't just take a break because i'll never finish it if i do and i can't just rush through the story missions because leaving all those side missions unfinished feels dirty and im starting to fucking LOSE IT i really just wanna be playing the new pathfinder game or something
actually i was plannin on playing rdr online after i beat the story mode but fucking hell i did not predict myself spending 100+ hours fucking around the wild wild west to get to that point -
2021-11-12 at 12:16 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny yes.
Alas, you are wrong. The lead may cease to be lead, but it does not cease to be. That aside, the change from lead to gold is a quite remarkable change in states indeed, and yet it remains a metal throughout. That state remains constant. My nature can similarly be transmuted while maintaining various states, one of which is life. -
2021-11-11 at 9:54 PM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?
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2021-11-11 at 3:56 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?
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2021-11-11 at 3:53 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?
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2021-11-11 at 3:51 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?
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2021-11-11 at 3:48 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?
Originally posted by Nile If somebody came to you and said they get you new tits, ass and better teeth, as well as bank rolling a custom furry suit and your other weird fetishes but you had to help them in the gender science studies would you simply turn them down? Mind you right wing autosts have a problem with you advancing such fields and may reign on ur parade…. Would you just simply not talk to Saddam then?
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with the modest government stipend I already receive for being useless. Tits are the least of my problems tbh and I know better than to make deals with the devil. -
2021-11-11 at 3:38 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?
Originally posted by Donald Trump When in doubt, kill. For instance the murder of Canadian Citizen Gerald Bull in Belgium by jedis.
He got what he deserved for being a cannon autist. Instead of obsessing over the goal of building a howitzer to pierce the heavens, he could have simply not talked to Saddam Hussein. -
2021-11-11 at 3:28 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?You shouldn't wait until the hangman has his noose around your neck to start fighting back. This is sound advice.
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2021-11-11 at 3:26 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?I don't know why you insist on this bizarre antisemitic Straussian reading of "if someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first", but it's not exactly contradictory to what I said. It's a saying taken from the Talmud which states that self-defense is justified, even preemptively. That is their honor. It is an early codification of one culture's rules surrounding self-defense - their niceties of violence. Perhaps lax rules, by your cultural standards, but rules nonetheless. It does not say "all goyim are trying to kill you therefore all murder of the goyim is justified", simply that if a goy is coming to kill you there's nothing wrong with cutting him down before he draws his sword.
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2021-11-11 at 3:02 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?
Originally posted by Donald Trump >100,000 years of history of warfare and killing for territory, gold, food and chattel (including livestock and women)
>"How dare someone use deadly force to defend property"
War has always been separate from more mundane acts of interpersonal violence between individuals though, and there have been rituals surrounding that violence (both kinds) for just as long. Honor, and things of that nature. The niceties of violence. "You can't shoot someone for breaking a window, but you can shoot someone if you try to stop them from breaking a window and they attack you [in a manner that would cause a reasonable person to fear for their life]" definitely feels like it falls into that grand tradition of totally arbitrary notions of honor. It's just codified now in a way it wasn't 4000 years ago (or 40000 years ago).
