I misunderstood the same way. Yes, that is a nearly vacuous decision.
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2 but more specific to your action reaching those people. As in it is always the case that you should believe that choosing dust specks does something which doesn't make sense to be described as "dust speck 3^^^3" people. Either Omega is confused or lying or something else.
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Omega has an arbitrary amount of computer power and has dedicated 3^^^3 people-sims to the experiment. What is necessarily unbelievable about this? (please include standard caveats, like yes this doesn't fit in our universe etc)
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(I think both are missing the point of the thought experiment, which is to put into conflict two basic human urges. But that's a much less interesting disagreement.)
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The thought experiment is fundamentally confused about the nature and reality of mathematical constructs.
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