When talking about counterfactuals, LessWrong tends to focus on a subset of counterfactuals that I would call “decision counterfactuals”. These are counterfactuals with respect to your own actions; e.g. “if I take a drink from my tea, then...”.
There’s a subset of lesswrongians , including EY, who have a problem with counterfactuals that other people don’t have, so it might be interesting to identify the problem. Many paradoxes arise from self reference...so if you assume the central example of a counterfactual is a counterfactual about your own behaviour , that would be a self referential counterfactuals. And then, maybe ,you misattribute the paradox to the counterfactuality, not to the self referentiality.
There’s a subset of lesswrongians , including EY, who have a problem with counterfactuals that other people don’t have, so it might be interesting to identify the problem. Many paradoxes arise from self reference...so if you assume the central example of a counterfactual is a counterfactual about your own behaviour , that would be a self referential counterfactuals. And then, maybe ,you misattribute the paradox to the counterfactuality, not to the self referentiality.
That sort of misattribution seems like a good way to frame it.