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Last night I introduced a couple of friends to Newcomb's Problem/Counterfactual Mugging, and we discussed it at some length. At some point, we somehow stumbled across the question "how do you picture Omega?"
Friend A pictures Omega as a large (~8 feet) humanoid with a deep voice and a wide stone block for a head.
And for my part, I've always pictured him a humanoid with paper-white skin in a red jumpsuit with a cape (the cape, I think, comes from hearing him described as "flying off" after he's confounded you).
So it seemed worth asking LW just for the amusement: how do you picture Omega?
A white human-shaped figure in a business suit, possibly faceless, stepping into a transparent blue cube for the flight part. Possibly unconsciously influenced by Einstein.
At the risk of spoiling a very good webcomic; Omega looks like this.
DAMN YOU WILLIS.
9cousin_it
I've always pictured Omega like this: suddenly I'm pulled from our world and appear in a sterile white room that contains two boxes. At the same moment I somehow know the problem formulation. I open one box, take the million, and return to the world.
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