Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox

• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You didn’t read the article. The computer isn’t watching you flip the coin and then switching the boxes at the last moment.

  The boxes are fixed before you enter the room. The computer has already predicted your choice.

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  • Oka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didnt read the article because in familiar with the theory already. I believe the universe is determinate, so every choice is predetermined. Therefore, the “predictor” can calculate your exact choice if it knows all variables of the universe. If it doesnt, it can calculate a likelihood between 99.9 repeating and 50.0 repeating, based on all the variables it does know.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I believe the universe is determinate

      That has been experimentally proven false and outside of all mainstream science.

      While you can have a supernatural belief in a clockwork universe, the premise is a supercomputer makes the prediction, not God.

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      • Oka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then the experiments may be flawed. We dont know what we dont know, but we have calculated a lot of “supernatural” phenomenon like gravity, physics, and light, to be computable mathematical formulae. Is it unthinkable to believe that everything can be computation then, if we were aware of every variable involved?

        There are a near infinite number of variables involved, but if we knew every variable, we could solve it.

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