Even if the black-pill guy is a psycho, he still has to deal with the other sort of problem, namely a computational complexity. If he’s going to do a brute-force simulation to find out a best sequence of actions for *every* situation, then he is going to be stuck simulating all the time, even if simulation takes only 0.00001% of the time required to live the situation. Because the number of possible action-sequences just explodes.
He must be damn good in algorithms and decision making in order to come up with a good answers to the questions: what situations to simulate and what not? until which depth shall i simulate a particular situation? when to stop collecting an options and make a commitment to one of them?
Poor Black-pill guy! He has a power to prevent all bad stuff, but clearly not enough capacity. He must always have to deal with problems like: “prevent beloved one from fatal accident or prevent a train full with strangers from crush” or “prevent ecological catastrophe or epidemic”? Even sleeping or eating for him are associated with a heavy opportunity cost of failing to save someone’s life. If he’s not a psycho, he is going to be overwhelmed and paralyzed with a feeling of guilt in less than few days.
Very entertaining story, though.