@suushikijitsu @mcc No, Newcomb's problem predates LW, but as best as I can tell Newcomb's problem is built on top of the same misguided field that taught Big Yud everything he knows: the side of economics that got really, really obsessed with behavioral sociology and invented Homo economicus as an idealized "rational" approximation of human behavior.

Edit: I posted a whole thing about it on my blog: https://chronos-tachyon.net/blog/post/2022/07/04/against-utilitarianism/