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"I mean, Abadar wouldn't have set up your family to end up in Axis without asking you.  But it's a decision-theoretically-complicated bargain being made around your past and future selves that, cares, in that way, and looks out for people's interests in ways that they didn't know to ask for, that they'd have predictably wanted later.  You're not, ultimately, being used in a cruel way where they go 'ha ha' afterwards, at least if things go the way that we hoped and mostly predict.  I can swear to that, and do swear to that."

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"I mean, Abadar wouldn't have set up your family to end up in Axis without asking you.  But it's a decision-theoretically-complicated bargain being made around your past and future selves that, cares, in that way, and looks out for people's interests in ways that they didn't know to ask for, that they'd have predictably wanted later.  You're not, ultimately, being used in a cruel way where they go 'ha ha' afterwards, at least if things go the way that we hoped, that was predicted to me.  I can swear to that, and do swear to that."

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"I mean, Abadar wouldn't have set up your family to end up in Axis without asking you.  But it's a decision-theoretically-complicated bargain being made around your past and future selves that, cares, in that way, and looks out for people's interests in ways that they didn't know to ask for, that they'd have predictably wanted later.  You're not, ultimately, being used in a cruel way where they go 'ha ha' afterwards, at least if things go the way that we hoped, that was predicted to me.  The result is not worse for you than if you'd done nothing, had no capacity to do anything; the results from your perspective would not have been better if you were a rock with that same utilityfunction.  I can swear to that, and do swear to that."

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"I mean, Abadar wouldn't have set up your family to end up in Axis without asking you.  But it's a decision-theoretically-complicated bargain being made around your past and future selves that, cares, in that way, and looks out for people's interests in ways that they didn't know to ask for, that they'd have predictably wanted later.  You're not, ultimately, being used in a cruel way where they go 'ha ha' afterwards, at least if things go the way that we hoped, that was predicted to me.  The result won't be worse for you than if you'd done nothing, had no capacity to do anything; the results from your perspective would not be worse than if you'd been a rock with the same utilityfunction.  I can swear to that, and do swear to that."

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"I mean, Abadar wouldn't have set up your family to end up in Axis without asking you.  But it's a decision-theoretically-complicated bargain being made around your past and future selves that, cares, in that way, and looks out for people's interests in ways that they didn't know to ask for, that they'd have predictably wanted later.  You're not, ultimately, being used in a cruel way where they go 'ha ha' afterwards, at least if things go the way that we hoped, that was predicted to me.  The result won't be worse for you than if you'd done nothing, or had no capacity to do anything.  The results from your perspective won't be worse than if you'd been a rock with the same utilityfunction.  I can swear to that, and do swear to that."