In other words, do we need to include a “TDT special sauce” from the beginning, in the makeup of such a program, in order for it to discover the merits of one-boxing; or is a capacity for ordinary causal reasoning, coupled with the capacity to represent the defining elements of Newcomb’s problem, enough for an independent discovery of these ideas?
This is basically what EY discusses in pp. ~27-37 of the thesis he posted, where he poses it as the difference between optimality on action-determined problems (in which ordinary causal reasoning suffices to win) and optimality on decision-determined problems (on which ordinary causal reasoning loses, and you have to incorporate knowledge of “what kind of being makes this decision”).
This is basically what EY discusses in pp. ~27-37 of the thesis he posted, where he poses it as the difference between optimality on action-determined problems (in which ordinary causal reasoning suffices to win) and optimality on decision-determined problems (on which ordinary causal reasoning loses, and you have to incorporate knowledge of “what kind of being makes this decision”).