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Comment author: PaulAlmond 17 August 2010 08:04:03PM 0 points [-]

"There's a relationship to your decision but you don't know which one". You won't see all the puppies being spared or all the puppies being blown up. You will see some of the puppies being spared and some of them being blown up, with no obvious pattern - however you know that your decision ultimately caused whatever sequence of sparing/blowing up the machine produced.