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Parfit's Hitchhiker, colliding futuristic civilizations, AIs with knowledge of each other's source code, whether rationalists can in principle cooperate on the true Prisoner's Dilemma.
Oh, hello.
Purely about precommitment, not prediction. Precommitment has been analyzed to death by Schelling, no paradoxes there.
Pass.
Rice's theorem.
PD doesn't have mystical omniscient entities. If we try to eliminate them from Newcomb's as well, the problem evaporates. So no relation.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does.
Rice's theorem is evidence that Omega is likely to be type 1 or 2 rather than 3, and thus in favor of one-boxing.