>>1151915>>the money is just sitting there unaffected by your subsequent choices>That's literally the opposite of what the problem says.Remember, there are two boxes. In the first box, there is $1000 regardless of what the predictor's prediction is. In the second box, there is either $0 or $1,000,000. People who 1-box take only the second box and leave the first box behind, even though it has $1000 in it and there is nothing stopping them from taking both boxes (the predictor has already left; their choice to take both boxes cannot influence the payouts, since that would require time travel).
By 1-boxing, you are wasting $1000 dollars that you know is sitting there. Do you see the paradox?
Imagine a real situation where the predictor is a team of scientists who have made a detailed simulation of your behavior using brain scans. They aren't God; they aren't right "by definition" or anything tricky like that. They just have a good model of your behavior that is usually accurate.
If you truly don't see why this is paradoxical, could you give an example of something that you do think is a paradox?
