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Comment author: wedrifid 02 February 2011 05:31:28AM *  0 points [-]

So the question is: is Prometheus running this simulation? If so, he will create you only if you one-box.

Lest my words be a source of confusion note that I use 'simulation' as an example or 'proof of concept' for how the superintelligence may be doing the deciding. He may be using some other rule of inference that accurately models my decision making. But that doesn't matter to me.

Comment author: magfrump 03 February 2011 05:38:10AM 0 points [-]

I agree with you here I believe. I didn't mean to imply that Prometheus was literally running the simulation, just that phrasing it in this way made the whole thing "click" for me.

I think my phrasing is the potential source of confusion.

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