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Decius comments on DRAFT:Ethical Zombies - A Post On Reality-Fluid - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Decius 12 January 2013 02:27:56AM -1 points [-]

How does any particular agent go about convincing me that it's Omega?

I don't know, but Omega does. Probably by demonstrating the ability to do something such that you believe the chance that it could be faked are epsilon^2, where epsilon is your prior belief that a given agent could have godlike powers.