Using Time Travel to Predict What You're Going to Do

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The game uses time travel rather than some fancy way of looking at your hand shape, right? I think that's my intuition too that that look, you're gonna make a decision. Whether you make it freely, this doesn't show. Like, let's say that free will exists and you have to choose between pressing the button or not. Let's say that some crazy libertarian fucking ghost in the machine free will exists. That predictor box is going to light up only when you press the button. It can't speak to whether or not you chose to press that button freely. Obviously, if somebody can come from the future, they will know what I've done if they've been watching me

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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