If you don’t know whether you’re a simulation or not, you don’t know whether or not your taking the second box will cause the real-world money not to be there. And, as a simulation, you probably won’t get to spend any of that sim-world money you’ve got there.
Replace ‘Omega’ with Patrick Jane. No sims. What do you do?
A) I one-box. I will one-box in most reasonable scenarios.
B)How do you predict other people’s actions?
Personally, I mentally simulate them. Not particularly well, mind, but I do mentally simulate them.
Am I unusual in this?
I’ve never watched the Mentalist, but if Patrick Jane is sufficiently good to get a 99% success rate, I’m guessing his simulations are pretty damn good.
Replace ‘Omega’ with Patrick Jane. No sims. What do you do?
A) I one-box. I will one-box in most reasonable scenarios.
B)How do you predict other people’s actions?
Personally, I mentally simulate them. Not particularly well, mind, but I do mentally simulate them. Am I unusual in this?
I’ve never watched the Mentalist, but if Patrick Jane is sufficiently good to get a 99% success rate, I’m guessing his simulations are pretty damn good.
Patrick Jane is a fictional character in the TV show The Mentalist. He’s a former (fake) psychic who now uses his cold reading skills to fight crime.
Cheers, had been looking that up, oddly my edit to my post didn’t seem to update it.