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Comment author: [deleted] 15 May 2014 06:10:12AM *  2 points [-]

They should minimize damage to their own occupants, but using some kind of superrational decision theory so they won't defect in prisoner's dilemmas against each other. I suspect that in sufficiently symmetric situations the result is the same as minimizing damage to everybody using causal decision theory.