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Yes. An argument similar to this should still be in the other-edited version of my unfinished TDT paper, involving a calculator on Venus and a calculator on Mars, the point being that if you're not logically omniscient then you need to factor out logical uncertainty for the Markov property to hold over your causal graphs, because physically speaking, all common causes should've been screened off by observing the calculators' initial physical states on Earth. Of course, it doesn't follow that we have to factor out logical uncertainty as a causal node that works like every other causal node, but we've got to factor it out somehow.
My point is more general than this. Namely, that a calculator on Earth and a calculator made by aliens in the Andromeda galaxy would correspond despite humans and the Andromedeans never having had any contact.