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Last night when I finished work and joined my husband for movie night, he instead showed me a video about Newcomb’s paradox and we spent two hours debating it until bed.

Anyway how is everyone’s weekend going?
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Fotoart · 24w
Now I can’t go to bed until I know what this is!
SoEV · 24w
Veritasium rules.
Tufty Sylvestris · 24w
All bitcoiners are one-boxers.
Leo Wandersleb · 24w
I find it irritatingly entertaining to think about even though it's kind of prisoners' dilemma with cheating.
Toby McMann · 24w
Here is a paradox: I could hang out on X, give all my best thoughts to Elon and be manipulated by his algorithms, and consume Lyn's best, real-time research. Or, I could hang out on Nostr, live an online existence that is free and soulful, with a longshot of seeing Lyn's best macro thinking (if mayb...
NaturalNerd · 24w
Very romantic 😂
RamenCoffee · 24w
idc I'm a EV maxer, I flip coins. Eat a dick machine.
Hoshi · 24w
I wasted my time with chat bots because I didn’t want to rtfm
Bob · 24w
😂
maceaver · 24w
nostr:npub1tqxuacrfv2ch6vufk96ns979qv8l905f7lmq6afa2zt6rfdvxeysy7hjt0 what is Newcomb’s paradox?
JL · 24w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb's_problem?wprov=sfti1 In philosophy and mathematics, Newcomb's problem, also known as Newcomb's paradox, is a thought experiment involving a decision problem where a player must decide whether to take one or two boxes in conditions where a being, often called t...
Kevin Alfred Strom · 23w
It all comes down to whether you think that the present can affect the past.
Ben Ewing · 23w
It’s hard not to risk causing myself pain to prove to myself I have free will, but I suppose that’s it’s own kind of prison, just one I’ve imposed on myself rather than one imposed on me
Ben Ewing · 23w
I think the answer is that it’s silly. Nothing is omnipotent or almost omnipotent. No one is giving away a million dollars. So the correct answer is to decline to play and go and make breakfast
remyers · 23w
Doesn't it depend on the subjective value of what's in box A relatative to value in box B for the picker?