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If he's always truthful, then he didn't lie to the simulation either and this means that he did infinitely many simulations before that. So assume he says "Either before you entered the room I ran a simulation of this problem as presented to an agent running TDT, or you are such a simulation yourself and I'm going to present this problem to the real you afterwards", or something similar. If he says different things to you and to your simulation instead, then it's not obvious you'll give the same answer.
Well, a TDT agent has indexical uncertainty about whether or not they're in the simulation, whereas a CDT or EDT agent doesn't. But I haven't thought this through yet, so it might turn out to be irrelevant.
This question of "Does Omega lie to sims?" was already discussed earlier in the thread. There were several possible answers from cousin_it and myself, any of which will do.