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The backward link isn't causal. It's a logical/Platonic-dependency link, which is indeed how TDT handles counterfactuals (i.e., how it handles the propagation of "surgical alterations" to the decision node C).
My understanding of the link in question, is that the logical value of the digit of pi causes Omega to take the physical action of putting the money in the box.
See Eliezer's second approach: