Natural selection is the Omega, and the mind propagated through generations by natural selection is the hitchhiker. The mind only gets to the “decide to pay”/”decide to care for children” if it had the right decision theory before the “rescue”/”copy to next generation”.
You should put that in the article. (True, it’s a causal iteration rather than an acausal prediction. But it’ll still make the article clearer.)
You should put that in the article. (True, it’s a causal iteration rather than an acausal prediction. But it’ll still make the article clearer.)
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve added it.