Epistemic status: half-baked thought

When an embedded agent - let's say Emmy - is faced with a choice from a set of actions , she is uncertain about what type of decision maker she is in her epistemic position.

For every possible choice $A_{i}$ among $(A_{i})_{i \in 1.. n}$ Emmy might select, the story would be "it turned out that Emmy is an $A_{k}$ -er"^[1].

If Emmy is able to say confidently "I'm about to act $A_{k}$ ", this means that she has already made her decision (or that she had no choice in the first place, depending on the situation^[2]). The choice therefore takes place during the uncertainty phase, when Emmy might say "I'm not sure who I am. Maybe a $A_{6}$ -er, maybe $A_{2}$ -er... Or am I a $A_{8}$ -er?".

So we have an agent, Emmy, without any observation whatsoever about her future decision. My take here this is anthropic situation: each kind of Emmy ( $A_{1}$ -er, ..., $A_{n}$ -er) is indiscernible before the end of the decision process.

Conclusion: Anthropics situation is not a weird LW problem, but the essence of any choice.

Hope: If valid, this take could help to deconfuse choice, so on agency and optimizer.

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For instance, faced with the Newcomb problem, she has to turned to be 1-boxer or 2-boxer (at least in a deterministic setup).
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I think the feeling about choice would be interesting to explore here, my guess is it's about the recent update on identity. If Emmy has known for a long time that she is a certain kind, in such a situation she doesn't feel her action as a choice, because she is already decided to act in a certain way.