Yeah, same. But I figured it wouldn’t violate the spirit of the exercise to pretend to turn the clock back two minutes and only set it going again once I understood the whole post!
(I then spent about 90 seconds mentally flailing about and tying myself in knots, before noticing I only had a few seconds left. At which point I told myself to find the simplest, dumbest solution that might possibly work; better to give a suboptimal answer than to get splattered by a trolley. And the simplest, dumbest solution is that the Lottery number & payout are wholly independent of what Omega or I do, so I can completely ignore it to reduce the problem to the usual Newcomb’s problem. Hence take only box B.)
Yeah, same. But I figured it wouldn’t violate the spirit of the exercise to pretend to turn the clock back two minutes and only set it going again once I understood the whole post!
(I then spent about 90 seconds mentally flailing about and tying myself in knots, before noticing I only had a few seconds left. At which point I told myself to find the simplest, dumbest solution that might possibly work; better to give a suboptimal answer than to get splattered by a trolley. And the simplest, dumbest solution is that the Lottery number & payout are wholly independent of what Omega or I do, so I can completely ignore it to reduce the problem to the usual Newcomb’s problem. Hence take only box B.)