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Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality
Stevedore15y00

The "no backwards causality" argument seems like a case of conflation of correlation and causation. Your decision doesn't retroactively cause Omega to fill the boxes in a certain way; some prior state of the world causes your thought processes and Omega's prediction, and the correlation is exactly or almost exactly 1.

EDIT: Correlation coefficients don't work like that, but whatever. You get what I mean.

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