The
One-Boxer: “Take only box B.”
The
Two-Boxer: “Take both boxes.”
The
Dialetheist: “Take only box B and take both boxes.”
The
Fundamentalist Teenager: “Until we’re married, take only box A.”
The
G.E. Moore: “Here is £500,000. Here is another £500,000. Therefore, take only box
B.”
The
Schroedinger: “Take only box B, but never open it.”
The
Radical Skeptic: “What boxes?”
The
Rational Skeptic: “When I appeared alongside this so-called “predictor” on Larry
King Live, I invited it to take my One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, and
it accepted. Unfortunately, when I approached it after the show to arrange a
date, it made a quick exit without responding to me, and my subsequent attempts
to contact it have all been ignored.”
The
Modal Realist: “In some possible world, you take both boxes and receive
£1,001,000.”
The
Talking Heads: “And you may find yourself taking both boxes. And you may say to
yourself, MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?!”
The
Behaviourist: “I can see that you’re keen on two-boxing; how do I feel about
it?”
The
Humean: “One box or two boxes? I prefer to just scratch my finger.”
The Nihilist: “Vere iz dat money, Lebowski? Ve vant da money, Lebowski! Ya zink ve are kidding?!”
The Nihilist: “Vere iz dat money, Lebowski? Ve vant da money, Lebowski! Ya zink ve are kidding?!”
The
Neutrino Physicist: “Take two boxes. Then do the same again another hundred
trillion trillion times.”
The
Heisenberg: “I worked out exactly what’s in box B, but now I have no idea where
it is.”
The
Penn & Teller: “This time, we’ll do Newcomb’s problem with both boxes
transparent!” [Naturally you take two boxes, but as you leave you notice that
the all the money has disappeared from both of them.]
The
Timothy Leary: “Take all three boxes.”
The Kaczynski: “Run away from box B.”
The Kaczynski: “Run away from box B.”
The
Donald: “We’re gonna open boxes, okay? Because I know boxes. I have the
best boxes. Tremendous boxes. We’re gonna open so many boxes, you’re gonna get sick
of opening boxes. Believe me, I’ve opened boxes many times. Look, having boxes - my uncle, good genes, very smart, okay, very smart - he opened so many boxes, you wouldn’t believe it. Crooked Hillary,
she couldn’t open even one box – it’s true, it’s true. Lots of people are saying that.
Sad!”
The
John Cage: “Music for Two Boxes for solo performer. Flip a coin. If heads,
take box B. If tails, take both boxes. To be performed with maximum
amplification.”
The
Nicolas Cage: “No, not the boxes! NOT THE BOXES! AAAHHHHH!! AHH, MY EYES, MY
EYES!!”