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From: marla@ssc-vax.UUCP (Marla S Baer)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: "Newcomb situation"
Message-ID: <596@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 14:03:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 14:03:58 1983
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You should take both boxes.

The person setting up the boxes has two possible decisions: either
the selector will take both boxes, or only the closed box. The
chooser also has two choices.  A table of the options looks like
this:

                    setter
            closed          both
  c       |-------------------------- 
  h       |
  o closed|  $1,000,000      $0
  o       |
  s both  |  $1,001,000      $1,000
  e       |
  r

In both cases, the selecter will make out better by choosing both
boxes.

                      Marla S. Baer
                      !ssc-vax!marla
                      (Seattle, WA)




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