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Acca.493 net.math utzoo!decvax!cca!z Fri Apr 23 12:15:51 1982 Re: Newcomb Yet Again That's cute - I really like throwing Willie in there. But the very fact that he's going to give you the same advice no matter what's in the boxes means that his advice gives you no additional information about the contents of the boxes, and it seems only reasonable in this case to proceed as before and choose only box B. You can make this choice (fairly) confident of keeping your head because you know that the same causal process which ultimately resulted in your choice has also resulted in a million dollars being placed in Box B by a friendly computer.

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