TheOtherDave comments on Discussion for Eliezer Yudkowsky's paper: Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong Discussion
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Nope; certainty is impossible to come by in worlds that contain a sufficiently powerful deceiver. That said, compiling the code she shows you on a different machine and having her shut herself down would be relatively compelling evidence in similar cases that don't posit an arbitrarily powerful deceiver.