Any acausal trade depends on precommitment, this is the only way an agreement can go across space-time, it is done on the game-theoretical possibilities space—as I am calling it. In the case I am discussing, a powerful agent would only have reason to even consider acausal trading with an agent if that agent can precommit. Otherwise, there is no other way of ensuring acausal cooperation.
I don’t understand what you mean by “precommit” here and in the rest of the article. Taboo “precommit”. (Acausal trade is presumably also possible for individual actions, in which case the usual sense of “precommitment” doesn’t seem relevant.)
Thanks for the tip. You are right, it is not clear when I am using the word in a game theoretical framing or in psychological framing. That made my argumentation easier but more likely to be flawed. Mostly I was referring to precommitment as in TDT, but then by the end I changed to psychological precommitment, it’s fuzzy (and wrong). I will rewrite the post tabooing precommit when I have the time, probably tomorrow.
I don’t understand what you mean by “precommit” here and in the rest of the article. Taboo “precommit”. (Acausal trade is presumably also possible for individual actions, in which case the usual sense of “precommitment” doesn’t seem relevant.)
Thanks for the tip. You are right, it is not clear when I am using the word in a game theoretical framing or in psychological framing. That made my argumentation easier but more likely to be flawed. Mostly I was referring to precommitment as in TDT, but then by the end I changed to psychological precommitment, it’s fuzzy (and wrong). I will rewrite the post tabooing precommit when I have the time, probably tomorrow.