: Navaho Neighbors . Franc Johnson Newcomb.

Newcomb ’ s Problem

Newcomb’s problem is a decision puzzle whose difficulty and interest stem from the fact that the possible outcomes are probabilistically dependent on, yet causally independent of, the agent’s options. The problem is named for its inventor, the physicist William Newcomb, but first appeared in print in a 1969 paper by Robert Nozick [12]. Closely related to, though less well-known than, the Prison...

Newcomb-Benford Law

The literature for Benford's law is quite large and growing [1]; we avoid interesting foundational issues [2, 3] and turn attention instead to a speci…c scenario [4, 5, 6, 7]. Let fa n g

15 seconds of fame Franc

15 seconds of fame is an interactive installation that every 15 seconds generates a new pop-art portrait of a randomly selected viewer. The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol’s ironical statement that “in the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes.” The installation detects human faces and crops them from the wide-angle view of people standing before the installation. Pop-art port...

Newcomb ' s Problem

The 1998 Simon Newcomb Award

“... machine decision making is running our household finances to a scary degree. ...Most of us have decided to change our habits so as to appeal to these machines [that calculate our credit ratings.] Our demonstrated willingness to accommodate machines in this way is ample reason to adopt a standing bias against the idea of AI. ...Artificial Intelligence has been one of the most heavily funded...