Goblin-King wrote:It has NEVER been wrong in all of the 1 time it has been used!
My answer would be to tell them to test their product properly!
But seriously, in this scenario the computer goes from being reliable to being unreliable.
If we can't trust the computer to predict accurately then it's just a coin toss and A+B is preferable.
Which is the point. It doesn't matter what the computer predicts... In the other model of the universe, it couldn't possibly know for sure what you would pick, the Chaos Theory prevents this... Remember, what ever is in the box, will always of been in the box and will always be in the box regardless to your personal choice, on the day that you make it (edit: depending on which model the universe actually is). It's Determinism v Freewill, if determinism wins, a computer could model the universe and never be wrong, it may take all the energy in the universe to make it 100% accurate, the butterfly effect and all that... but if freewill, the Chaos theory is correct, there is always a margin of error.
In many science fiction film we have computers that predict the future... They predict a crash in stocks so every one sells the stocks, causing the crash, they predict plague, so every one is rounded together, causing the plague, they predict war so war is started. In the freewill model, just because one predicts what actually happens doesn't mean they knew it would happen, they simply guessed right. A machine making predictions, therefore can be a very dangerous thing, remove the machine and those things don't happen, it could also predict the opposite, creating good things.
The obvious choice by many would be to pick B and hope the computer was right, never proving it wrong so the test results would actually be flawed. It would take the first brave soul to try take both boxes to see, however, even a simple algorithm would be able to tell you were the type to do that after asking a few questions.
The point of the Chaos theory is... We may know exactly how sand will blow in the desert but we can't predict where each grain will be. A Determinist could then argue, because your prediction machine doesn't have all the variables, only the universe itself has all the variable. Followed by the non Determinist to say, yes but that machine itself would be come a new variable and as all energy simply transforms, the maths prevent it from ever existing, it would need to factor in it's own existence, then factor in its own factoring in of it's existence, and so on, creating an infinite loop on needed energy. The collapse of the universe... BOOM! big bang all over again, lol!!!