I agree that there are parallels between akrasia and Newcomb’s problem. I attempted to generalize this and show how a large class of problems fits into this extracausal-reasoning template in my post Real World Newcomblike Problems.
I agree that there are parallels between akrasia and Newcomb’s problem. I attempted to generalize this and show how a large class of problems fits into this extracausal-reasoning template in my post Real World Newcomblike Problems.