Acausal Trade and the Terminal Utility of Pre-emptive Self-Abnegation: Introducing the "Predictor’s Guillotine"
CW: Theoretical discussion of suicide / self-harm. Author’s Note: This paper is a theoretical exploration of decision-boundary conditions and should not be construed as actionable advice. Abstract: Standard Causal Decision Theory (CDT) notoriously fails in Newcomb-like scenarios where an agent’s current choices are perfectly correlated with past predictions made by...
Jan 91