Consider the futures of humanity which I would, upon reflection, endorse as among the best of utopias, and consider the simplest Turing Machines which encode them. If you apply (some function which turns their states after n steps into a real number and concatenate them), would the output of such calculation belong to (this randomly chosen half of the real numbers)?
I’m sure this can be worded more carefully, but right now this may force the oracle to simulate all the futures of humanity which I would consider to be among the best of utopias.
This is a clever answer, but we don’t know how the oracle works—they’re supposedly omniscient and there’s some chance that they can pull the answer magically from thin air (or some other clever method of derivation that doesn’t require any simulation), in which case you just wasted a very valuable question.
Consider the futures of humanity which I would, upon reflection, endorse as among the best of utopias, and consider the simplest Turing Machines which encode them. If you apply (some function which turns their states after n steps into a real number and concatenate them), would the output of such calculation belong to (this randomly chosen half of the real numbers)?
I’m sure this can be worded more carefully, but right now this may force the oracle to simulate all the futures of humanity which I would consider to be among the best of utopias.
This is a clever answer, but we don’t know how the oracle works—they’re supposedly omniscient and there’s some chance that they can pull the answer magically from thin air (or some other clever method of derivation that doesn’t require any simulation), in which case you just wasted a very valuable question.