My problem with all this is, if hypothetical-me’s decisionmaking process is made by genetics, why are you asking real-me what the decisionmaking process should be?
Real-me can come up with whatever logic and arguments, but hypothetical-me will ignore all that and choose by some other method.
(Traditional Newcomb is different, because in that case hypothetical-me can use the same decisionmaking process as real-me)
So, what if one day you learned that hypothetical-you is the actual-you, that is, what if Omega actually came up to you right now and told you about the study etc. and put you into the “genetic Newcomb problem”?
Hypothetical-me can use the same decisionmaking process as real-me also in genetic Newcomb, just as in the original. This simply means that the real you will stand for a hypothetical you which has the gene which makes you choose the thing that real you chooses, using the same decision process that the real you uses. Since you say you would two-box, that means the hypothetical you has the two-boxing gene.
I would one-box, and hypothetical me has the one-boxing gene.
My problem with all this is, if hypothetical-me’s decisionmaking process is made by genetics, why are you asking real-me what the decisionmaking process should be?
Real-me can come up with whatever logic and arguments, but hypothetical-me will ignore all that and choose by some other method.
(Traditional Newcomb is different, because in that case hypothetical-me can use the same decisionmaking process as real-me)
So, what if one day you learned that hypothetical-you is the actual-you, that is, what if Omega actually came up to you right now and told you about the study etc. and put you into the “genetic Newcomb problem”?
Well, I can say that I’d two-box.
Does that mean I have the two-boxing gene?
Hypothetical-me can use the same decisionmaking process as real-me also in genetic Newcomb, just as in the original. This simply means that the real you will stand for a hypothetical you which has the gene which makes you choose the thing that real you chooses, using the same decision process that the real you uses. Since you say you would two-box, that means the hypothetical you has the two-boxing gene.
I would one-box, and hypothetical me has the one-boxing gene.