Manfred comments on Treating anthropic selfish preferences as an extension of TDT - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 03 January 2015 05:25:24AM *  1 point [-]

This is identical to the problem with causal decision theory which goes "If determinism is true, I'm already certain to make my decision, so how can I worry about its causal impacts?"

The answer is that you swear the oath because you calculated what would happen if (by causal surgery) your decision procedure output something else. This calculation gets done regardless of determinism - it's just how this decision procedure goes.