I think counterfactual mugging was originally brought up in the context of problems which TDT doesn’t solve, that is it gives the obvious but non-optimal answer. The reason is that regardless of my counterfactual decision Omega still flips the same outcome and still doesn’t pay.
I think counterfactual mugging was originally brought up in the context of problems which TDT doesn’t solve, that is it gives the obvious but non-optimal answer. The reason is that regardless of my counterfactual decision Omega still flips the same outcome and still doesn’t pay.