what does newcomb's paradox teach us?

posted 2009-10-22T17:21:51Z

seems as though wolpert and benford have a good resolution to the paradox where: "Suppose you meet a Wise being (W) who tells you it has put $1,000 in box A, and either $1 million or nothing in box B. This being tells you to either take the contents of box B only, or to take the contents of both A and B. Suppose further that the being had put the $1 million in box B only if a prediction algorithm designed by the being had said that you would take only B. If the algorithm had predicted you would take both boxes, then the being put nothing in box B." what do you do?

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