Because of “Andy’s examples”:http://www.geocities.com/eganamit/NoCDT.pdf a lot of people have been thinking again about the _Death in Damascus_ case in Gibbard and Harper’s causal decision theory paper. The story is famously an old story, but there has been some uncertainty about how old. Now Jordan Howard Sobel has written up “notes on its origin”:http://www.scar.utoronto.ca/~sobel/PuzzlesDEATHSPEAKS.pdf. (Warning – PDF in both links.)