You are to determine what is to be written (by Omega) on the test sheet in that counterfactual (the actions of your counterfactual self who takes the test in the counterfactual are ignored)
as if it should relate to the Omega clause, made me ignore. (couldn’t figure out what it could apply to). So perhaps I couldn’t parse Vlad.
This consists of just reapplying the algorithm or re-reading the previous paragraph with “even” replaced with “odd”, so the answer should be 99% odd.
This is based on my understanding of counterfactual as considering what you would do in some hypothetical alternate branch ‘what-if’.
This is how I interpreted it as well. I’m assuming something else is going on with the “updateless” part, but I don’t know what it is.
I took that as somewhat of a red herring. No ‘updateless’ reasoning seems to be required—just careful thinking.
Vladmir explicitly ruled out caring what your counterfactual self would do:
The fact that he put that in quotes:
as if it should relate to the Omega clause, made me ignore. (couldn’t figure out what it could apply to). So perhaps I couldn’t parse Vlad.