Downvoted for the obnoxiousness of saying “of course” and not giving even the vaguest of explanations. This comment read to me like this: “It’s stupid that you would even ask such a question, and I can’t be bothered to say why it’s stupid, but I can be bothered to proclaim my superior intelligence”.
I’m sorry it came off that way, I just found it overly similar to the other various Newcomblike problems, and couldn’t see how it was supposed to reveal anything new about optimal decision strategies; paying is the TDT answer and the UDT answer; it’s the choice you’d wish you could have precommitted to if you could have precommitted, it’s the decision-type that will cause you to actually get $1,000,000, etc. If I’m not mistaken, this problem doesn’t address any decision situations not already covered by standard Counterfactual Mugging and Parfit’s Hitchhiker.
(Admittedly, I should have just said all that in the first place.)
Of course I’d pay.
Downvoted for the obnoxiousness of saying “of course” and not giving even the vaguest of explanations. This comment read to me like this: “It’s stupid that you would even ask such a question, and I can’t be bothered to say why it’s stupid, but I can be bothered to proclaim my superior intelligence”.
I’m sorry it came off that way, I just found it overly similar to the other various Newcomblike problems, and couldn’t see how it was supposed to reveal anything new about optimal decision strategies; paying is the TDT answer and the UDT answer; it’s the choice you’d wish you could have precommitted to if you could have precommitted, it’s the decision-type that will cause you to actually get $1,000,000, etc. If I’m not mistaken, this problem doesn’t address any decision situations not already covered by standard Counterfactual Mugging and Parfit’s Hitchhiker.
(Admittedly, I should have just said all that in the first place.)