In the specific scenario of “Mark Xu asks to bet me about the name on his driver’s license”, my confidence drops immediately because I start questioning his motives for offering such a weird bet.
Well, yes, if you interpret a lot of thought experiments literally, the proper response is more like “I think I’m having a stroke or that I overdosed on potent psychoactive substances or am asphyxiating.” than anything ‘in the spirit’ of the experiments.
But it gets old fast to describe (yet again) how you’d answer any question posed to you by Omega with “You’re a figment of my imagination.” or whatever.
In the specific scenario of “Mark Xu asks to bet me about the name on his driver’s license”, my confidence drops immediately because I start questioning his motives for offering such a weird bet.
Well, yes, if you interpret a lot of thought experiments literally, the proper response is more like “I think I’m having a stroke or that I overdosed on potent psychoactive substances or am asphyxiating.” than anything ‘in the spirit’ of the experiments.
But it gets old fast to describe (yet again) how you’d answer any question posed to you by Omega with “You’re a figment of my imagination.” or whatever.