Omega reverses sha-256, and the reversals are all limerick-meter summaries of the original. Omega replays your life history (found it in a sim). Omega shows you the computational machinery and the program which is running. Omega runs a program of your choosing.
Anyway, (IMO) the point of the thought experiment isn't to reproduce your hypothetical internal state, it's to figure out without pressure what you'd want yourself to do.
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At what point does this stop making sense: Dust speck Ramsey number R(10^100,10^100) people, dust speck BB(50000) people, aleph_0 people, aleph_1 people
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Me a year or two ago would have stopped at BB, but now I think likely all of those are fine, they just imply the copy of me deciding has to be embedded in bigger and bigger systems.
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The basic idea of putting in tension our impulse to save one from undue suffering with our impulse to allow one to suffer for the good of the group doesn't seem like a major stretch for the imagination. There are probably numbers vastly smaller than 3^^^3 that make it work.
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