Perhaps Omega and the boxes are entangled with Joe in such a way that in every branch where Joe one-boxes, he finds $1,000,000, and in every branch in which he two-boxes, he finds $1,000.
I won’t try to flesh this out with QM calculations, because by my standard for being able to say anything sensible about QM (being able to ace a closed-book finals exam), I can’t. But from my position of complete ignorance, it seems an obvious direction to look.
Perhaps Omega and the boxes are entangled with Joe in such a way that in every branch where Joe one-boxes, he finds $1,000,000, and in every branch in which he two-boxes, he finds $1,000.
I won’t try to flesh this out with QM calculations, because by my standard for being able to say anything sensible about QM (being able to ace a closed-book finals exam), I can’t. But from my position of complete ignorance, it seems an obvious direction to look.
I wish standards like this were (self-)applied on this site more often.
I do not see any way how Omega and the boxes now can be entangeled with a photon passing or not passing through a semitransparent mirror in 5 min.