Blackmail is making a demand against the threat of revealing secrets, and there are no secrets being revealed in the XOR puzzle.
There are some subtleties about “Demand”. Does it here imply “with menaces”, i.e. Extortion? Under FDT, the line between extortion and mere demand without menaces is rather fine.
Extortion: “Nice house you have there. It would be a shame if it were to suddenly get infested with termites.”
Demand: “Nice house you have there. It would be a shame to discover it got infested with termites a year ago.”
Omicron (an ordinary mortal disguised as Omega) says the latter only to people who they observe to be FDT-followers with no termite infestation, or to people they observe to be FDT-sceptics (whose houses Omicron started a termite infestation in a year ago). Hence Omicron’s perfect record.
This looks like a money pump against FDT-ers. I therefore guess that FDT has a counter. Possibly to do with considering the possibility that one is facing Omicron and not Omega. If they are a prominent follower of FDT, and they know they are facing an Omicron, they have no reason to pay, except perhaps a gratuity for having being assured that they have no termite infestation.
Blackmail is making a demand against the threat of revealing secrets, and there are no secrets being revealed in the XOR puzzle.
There are some subtleties about “Demand”. Does it here imply “with menaces”, i.e. Extortion? Under FDT, the line between extortion and mere demand without menaces is rather fine.
Extortion: “Nice house you have there. It would be a shame if it were to suddenly get infested with termites.”
Demand: “Nice house you have there. It would be a shame to discover it got infested with termites a year ago.”
Omicron (an ordinary mortal disguised as Omega) says the latter only to people who they observe to be FDT-followers with no termite infestation, or to people they observe to be FDT-sceptics (whose houses Omicron started a termite infestation in a year ago). Hence Omicron’s perfect record.
This looks like a money pump against FDT-ers. I therefore guess that FDT has a counter. Possibly to do with considering the possibility that one is facing Omicron and not Omega. If they are a prominent follower of FDT, and they know they are facing an Omicron, they have no reason to pay, except perhaps a gratuity for having being assured that they have no termite infestation.
XtORtion?