...then you need to imagine you made the robot, it is meeting Omega on your behalf—and that it then gives you all its winnings.
I like this version! Now the answer seems quite obvious.
In this case, I would design the robot to be a one-boxer. And I would harbour the secret hope that a stray cosmic ray will cause the robot to pick both boxes anyway.
Yes—but you would still give its skull a lead-lining—and make use of redundancy to produce reliability...
Agreed.
...then you need to imagine you made the robot, it is meeting Omega on your behalf—and that it then gives you all its winnings.
I like this version! Now the answer seems quite obvious.
In this case, I would design the robot to be a one-boxer. And I would harbour the secret hope that a stray cosmic ray will cause the robot to pick both boxes anyway.
Yes—but you would still give its skull a lead-lining—and make use of redundancy to produce reliability...
Agreed.