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[Edit: Don't bother responding to this yet. I need to think this through.]
I'm not sure this question makes sense. Can you give an example?
S should take the programmer R's prior and memories/sensory data at the time of coding, and compute a posterior probability distribution using them (assuming it would do a better job at this than R). Then use that to compute R's expected utility for the purpose of computing the optimal GLT. This falls out of the idea that S is trying to approximate what the GLT would be if R had logical omniscience.
No, S will do it.
I guess both, but I don't understand the significance of this question.