No reason to precommit to AVOID gum.
Gum is beneficial, so you don't want to precommit against it. Nonetheless, it is evidence of a bad thing.
I don't follow. Chewing gum is strictly better, so I'll precommit to it. Precommitting to picking only box B is better than precomitting to picking box A and B, so if I had to precommit I would choose to do so for box B.
Nonetheless, it is evidence of a bad thing.
That has been debunked.
I guess I am just following the parallels between the two problems.
I have not seen any place to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky's new paper, titled Timeless Decision Theory, so I decided to create a discussion post. (Have I missed an already existing post or discussion?)