On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:55 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The two transparent boxes can have two possible outcomes. One is that the > player only takes box B, which contains $1 million (I believe is the agreed > amount). The other is that the player sees the million dollars, takes both > boxes, and proves that the oracle is not infallible, > > The problem with N's problem is that it isn't well enough defined to be a > problem! > > Without stipulating the nature of the oracle, the nature of reality, and > so on, there is no way to evaluate the situation. Why is the oracle thought > to be infallible? How could it possibly know in advance what someone will > do? Are we living in a multiverse in which all decisions get made anyway? > Etc. > >
Oddly, philosophy undergraduates lean towards one box, while philsophy professors favor two boxes: http://lesswrong.com/lw/hqs/why_do_theists_undergrads_and_less_wrongers_favor/ Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
