I liked the writing style. But it seems that no one in the comments noted the obvious that it’s not “you control the aliens”, but “the aliens control you” (although this sounds even crazier and like a freak in everyday life), in other words, you are in any case a simulation, but whose results can predict the decision of another agent, including a decision based on prediction, and so on. This removes all questions about magic (although it can be fun to think about it). Although this can cause a problem for the calculator, which, instead of determining the result “5 + 7”, will try to determine what it will give out for the query “5 + 7″, but will not work on calculating the sum.
I liked the writing style. But it seems that no one in the comments noted the obvious that it’s not “you control the aliens”, but “the aliens control you” (although this sounds even crazier and like a freak in everyday life), in other words, you are in any case a simulation, but whose results can predict the decision of another agent, including a decision based on prediction, and so on. This removes all questions about magic (although it can be fun to think about it). Although this can cause a problem for the calculator, which, instead of determining the result “5 + 7”, will try to determine what it will give out for the query “5 + 7″, but will not work on calculating the sum.