Le paradoxe de Newcomb expliqué (et ça vous rendra encore plus fou)

More in this episode:    • Le dilemme du prisonnier et le paradoxe de...   Previous episode (presentation of the paradox:    • Ce paradoxe vous rendra fou.  ) After watching the video, I invite you to vote again by liking one of the responses in the pinned comment. Summary 0:00 - Introduction (presentation of the problem) 2:04 - The very divided state of your answers... 5:11 - A brief history of the Nozick problem to the present day 6:39 - Stage 1: The candid drinker 7:30 - Stage 2: The "don't fool me" opener 8:52 - Stage 3: The bitter opener (or the unhappy rationalist) 10:20 - Stage 4: The perplexed drinker 11:34 - Free will is neither the problem nor the solution 14:56 - An empirically credible Newcomb case 19:04 - Expectation maximization vs. the dominant strategy 19:39 - Why calculating expectation is not really relevant 21:19 - What is a dominant strategy? The Prisoner's Dilemma 24:02 - When it's better not to follow the dominant strategy 26:22 - Are openers right to follow the dominant strategy? 28:36 - Drinking the poison IS the best strategy. Meet Alfred. 31:02 - We are not Alfreds 32:11 - The Transparent Briefcase Variation 35:14 - Kavka's Toxin (and again why we are not Alfreds) 37:08 - Why it might be smart to play dumb 38:27 - The Chicken Game 42:33 - The Krazy-8 Problem (or Parfit's Hitchhiker) 45:18 - Can you predict your own choice in a Newcomb situation? 47:17 - Outro (and why some questions posed at the beginning of the video haven't been answered yet...) ___________________________________________ 📚 My book "Philosophical Curiosities, from Plato to Russell": https://amzn.to/3hIshrw Also follow AXIOME, a mathematical-philosophical podcast with Lê ​​(Science4All) 🍻 ---    / @axiome7403   --- The channel's main source of funding is crowdfunding. Thank you for all your donations! 💸 TIPEEE: ---- https://www.tipeee.com/monsieurphi ---- 💸 UTIP: ---- https://utip.io/mrphi ----- (If you're undecided between the two, use uTip instead.) Or to donate directly: 💸 PAYPAL: ---- paypal.me/monsieurphi ---- To follow me elsewhere: 🐤 Twitter (where I spend way too much time):   / monsieurphi   👴 Facebook (for boomers):   / graindephilo   😱 TikTok (I post something every two or three days right now):   / monsieurphi   🌷 Instagram (where I mostly repost what I put on TikTok):   / monsieur.phi   👕 And to buy little goodies: https://utip.io/mrphi/shop