it is irrational to take some action if, at the time you take it, you know it will simply result in you having less money than if you took a different action
I lean towards thinking you shouldn’t pay, but I’m somewhat uncertain about that. I lean causal, but am sympathetic both to EDT and some third undiscovered theory.
Suppose, alternatively, that you and another person (or even an optimizer for entirely different values) are both given a chance to pay $1 so that the counterpart received $2. Does it become rational to pay or not to pay?
I lean towards thinking you shouldn’t pay, but I’m somewhat uncertain about that. I lean causal, but am sympathetic both to EDT and some third undiscovered theory.