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Comment author: MugaSofer 10 January 2013 10:17:32AM -2 points [-]

Anyway, now Omega comes to you and says: unless you give me $100k (replace this with some sum that you could raise if necessary, but would be a hell of an imposition), I will simulate one copy of you and then stop simulating it at around the point of it's life you're currently at. Would you pay up? Would you pay up in the same way if the threat were "I'll flip a coin and kill you if it comes up heads"?

No. He doubles my "reality", then halves it. This leaves me just as real as I was in the first place.

However, if he ran the simulation anyway, even if I paid up, then I think it does work out equivalent, because it's equivalent to creating the sim and then threatening to delete one of me if I didn't pay.

Does this answer your question?

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