James_D._Miller comments on Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality - Less Wrong
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I do understand. My point is that we ought not to *care* whether we're going to consider all the possibilities and benefits.
Oh, but you say, our caring about our consideration process is a determined part of the causal chain leading to our consideration process, and thus to the outcome.
Oh, but I say, we ought not to care* about that caring. Again, recurse as needed. Nothing you can say about the fact that a cognition is in the causal chain leading to a state of affairs counts as a point against the claim that we ought not to care about whether or not we have that cognition if it's unavoidable.