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Being indifferent doesn't mean doing nothing. How would you privilege "doing nothing" over other courses of action, if you are indifferent to everything?
It's less consciously privileging "doing nothing" over anything else so much as looking at everything else you'd usually do, not caring about any of those options, thinking up some alternatives, still not caring, and subsequently just doing nothing, possibly because it's easiest.
So one does still care about things being easy.
Possibly, so I guess it's not completely nihilism. Or it's just null-set nihilism: If nothing seems worth doing, do nothing.
Note the fact that, in my original scenario, we considered alternative choices of action. I get the feeling a pure nihilistic engine wouldn't even do that, so I'm already arguing from the wrong point.