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.
Yes, you can't access that epistemic state and nearly everyone who thinks they can is confabulating (that goes for much more mundane thought experiments, too). But is it invalid to reflect on what you'd want that you to choose?
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It is not invalid to reflect on what you think you might choose, but understanding that your action will affect quantityOf(3^^^3) people seems like such an alien state of mind that you can't have a good idea what you might choose
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I think nearly all responses to "what would you do when faced with X" questions are confabulation and I don't think this case is especially worse than most.
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