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Are you sure? I'm not objecting to the arbitrary payoffs or complaining because he doesn't seem to be maximizing his own utility. I'm objecting to his ability to predict my actions. Give me a scenario which doesn't require me to assign a non-zero prior to woo and in which a revisionist decision theory wins. If you can't, then your "improved" decision theory is no better than woo itself.
Regarding the Absent Minded Driver, I didn't recognize the reference. Googling, I find a .pdf by one of my guys (Nobelist Robert Aumann) and an LW article by Wei-Dai. Cool, but since it is already way past my bedtime, I will have to read them in the morning and get back to you.
Omega is a perfect super-intelligence, existing in a computer simulation like universe that can be modeled by a set of physical laws and a very long string of random numbers. Omega knows the laws and the numbers.