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It's precisely the assertion that all such problems have to be solved at the probability distribution level that I'm disputing. I'll go so far as to make a testable prediction: it will be eventually acknowledged that the notion of a purely selfish agent is a good approximation that nonetheless cannot handle such extreme cases. If you can come up with a theory that handles them all without touching the utility function, I will be interested in seeing it!
None of the decision theories in question assume a purely selfish agent.
No, but most of the example problems do.