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this was my initial reaction as well, ask if I can go the other way until we're at, say, 1000 years. but if you truly take the problem at face value (we're negotiating with omega, the whole point of omega is that he neatly lops off alternatives for the purposes of the thought experiment) and are negotiating for your total lifespan +- 0 then yes, I think you'd be forced to come up with a rule.
I think my "true rejection", then, if I'm understanding the term correctly, is the idea that we live in a universe where such absolute certainties could exist -- or at least where for-all-practical-purposes certainties can exist without any further context.