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From: kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Newcomb's Paradox
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Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 14:18:07 EST
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OK, Matthew, here's my strategy for playing the Newcomb game.
I open Box B.  My reasons are as follows.

If the guy's for real (which I doubt), I get my cool $1 Million.
If the guy's a fake, then either I bilk him out of $1 Million
or I prove he's a fake when Box B turns up empty.  As for the
$1000, that's small potatoes.  I wouldn't worry about that when
I have a chance to either profit big or expose a world-class fraud.

--Barry Kort  ...ihnp4!hounx!kort