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I chose A, on the off-chance that it interprets that as some kind of decision theoretical way that makes it do something I value in return for the favour.
(This phrases the answer in terms of identity. The question should be about the abstract choice itself, not about anyone's decision about it. What do we understand about the choice? We don't actually need to decide.)
Since you doing it "on the off chance" doesn't correlate with whether or not it does anything special, any paperclipper worth its wire would make paperclips.
In other words, you're changing the thought experiment.