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Comment author: [deleted] 14 September 2014 03:31:12PM *  1 point [-]

Suppose you have to submit the source code of a program X, and I will play Y = “run X, then do what X did with probability 0.99 and the reverse with probability 0.01” against Y' which is the same as Y but with a different seed for the RNG, and pay you according to how Y does.

Then “you” (i.e. Y) are not a perfect clone of your opponent (i.e. Y').

What do you do?