Comments by "" (@jb76489) on "This Video Will Doom You. | Answers With Joe" video.

Newcomb’s paradox is the best paradox, neither answers is without merit and it gets into all kinds of fields like game theory, fatalism, causality and free will. Ship of Theseus/Star Trek transporter is also really good, mostly because of the disturbing implication regarding sleep
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@adamsmith7885 the problem with newcombs is it does tend to attract people who have a hard time thinking especially in different ways. “Paradoxes aren’t real” define real “Take the million” that’s the point, you don’t know if it’s there
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@adamsmith7885 “troll” yep, that’s exactly what this is, how amazingly perceptive of you “You clearly don’t know what newcombs is” two boxes, one clear the other opaque. The clear box has $1000 visible inside, the opaque might have $1 000 000 depending on the prediction made by the opposing party. The question is how to maximize gains an your answer depends on what you believe about the opposing party. If you don’t care about the opposing party’s prediction, then the right answer is to take both as regardless of what they predicted, taking both will always have more money. If you believe the opposing party’s prediction is always right, as you’re told it is, you only take the opaque. But you do not know if the million dollars is there or not
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