Prior to seeing the fact that the Lottery numbers matched, I would have liked to have pre-committed to one boxing in all cases. That’s how I set my deterministic algorithm.
Therefore, I will surely one box. This seems more or less identical to the classic Newcomb. Yes, I know the number is prime now, so I would like to get away with taking the second box and I should try as hard as I can to override my initial programming and two box...but unless my algorithm is unsuccessfully pre-committed, I will fail to do so.
Some folks seem to think you aught to pre-commit to set your algorithm to two box if and only if the numbers match. That’s wrong because you aren’t effecting the Lottery. All you are doing is making it so that Omega sometimes chooses a composite number which is identical to the Lottery when the Lottery is a composite number. The Lottery is random and irrelevant.
Edit: Some other commentators seem to interpret EDT as two boxing in this scenario, so I guess it does differ from classical Newcomb. Would EDT also require you to pre-commit to two-boxing, or is that just what EDT says when thrust into the scenario? (if the latter, isn’t that a huge problem?)
Prior to seeing the fact that the Lottery numbers matched, I would have liked to have pre-committed to one boxing in all cases. That’s how I set my deterministic algorithm.
Therefore, I will surely one box. This seems more or less identical to the classic Newcomb. Yes, I know the number is prime now, so I would like to get away with taking the second box and I should try as hard as I can to override my initial programming and two box...but unless my algorithm is unsuccessfully pre-committed, I will fail to do so.
Some folks seem to think you aught to pre-commit to set your algorithm to two box if and only if the numbers match. That’s wrong because you aren’t effecting the Lottery. All you are doing is making it so that Omega sometimes chooses a composite number which is identical to the Lottery when the Lottery is a composite number. The Lottery is random and irrelevant.
Edit: Some other commentators seem to interpret EDT as two boxing in this scenario, so I guess it does differ from classical Newcomb. Would EDT also require you to pre-commit to two-boxing, or is that just what EDT says when thrust into the scenario? (if the latter, isn’t that a huge problem?)