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Aduke.2085 net.math utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!cjp Thu Apr 22 22:30:57 1982 Re: lime.226: Newcomb Yet Again

As I said in my little discussion of Newcomb's Paradox, the admission of any outside influence to the person choosing boxes invalidates the claim that the interviewer *can* predict what you are going to do. X-Ray Willie is such an outside influence. The interviewer could not (and in general, *can not*) know about all such Willies you might run into in the next week. So Newcomb lied when he proposed his setup, and indeed is probably still laughing at us. Charles Poirier

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