bgrah449 comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong
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I think so, but it's important to identify the time at which it became predictable - for example, you could only predict that you were painting yourself into a corner just prior to when you made the last brushstroke that made the strip(s) of paint covering the exit path too wide to jump over. This seems hard.
Also, you'd have to know what your utility function was going to be in the future to know that some event was even worth predicting. This seems hard, too.