Where are the new monthly threads when I need them? A pox on the +11 EDT zone!
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If the solution were just to see that optimizing our decision algorithm is the right thing to do, the crucial difference between the original problem and the variant, where Omega tells you he will play this game with you some time in the future, seems to disappear.
Hardly anyone denies 1-boxing is the rational choice in the latter case.
There must be more to this.
I don't see a contradiction, just based on what you've written. (If a crucial difference disappears, then maybe it wasn't that crucial? Especially if the answer is the same, it's OK if the problems turn out to actually be more similar than you thought.) Could you clarify how you conclude that there there must be more to the problem?
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