if any professor out there wants to let me come in and just do a PhD in analytic philosophy—just write the thesis and defend it—then I have, for my own use, worked out a general and mathematically elegant theory of Newcomblike decision problems. I think it would make a fine PhD thesis, and it is ready to be written—if anyone has the power to let me do things the old-fashioned way.
So, has anyone made the offer?
Good question. I would think that Bostrom (if he wanted to), could make this happen.
Yes, it was in one of the original commentaries. The proposal didn’t go through though.