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Hi jessicat, thx for commenting!
Sounds about right.
No, it's the same P. When I say "Omega's simulation doesn't involve P" I mean Omega is not executing P and using the result. Omega is using equation (2) directly, but P still enters into equation (2).
Logical uncertainty (the way I see it), is a way to use a certain amount of computing resources to assign probabilities to the outcomes of a computation requiring a larger amount of computing resource. These probabilities depend on the specific resource bound. However, this is not essential to the point I'm making. The point I'm making is that if the logical uncertainty ensemble assigns non-zero probability to P producing XDT, we end up with logical correlation that is better avoided.