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Downvoted for missing the obvious and often pointed out part about a fallible Omega still making Newcomb go through, and then whining about your own fault.
I was already downvoted 6 before whining about my own fault. If Omega need not be infallible than it is certainly gratuitously confusing to me to put such an omega in the argument. I am a very smart potential fellow traveler here, it would seem a defect of the site that its collective behavior is to judge queries such as mine unreasonable and undesirable to be seen.
If omega has previously been cited to be quite fallible and still have a newcomb's problem, I have not noticed it and I would love to see a link. Meanwhile, I'd still like to know how a newcomb's problem stated with a garden-variety human conman making the prediction is inferior to one which gratuitously calls upon a being with special powers unknown in the universe. Why attribute to Omega that which can be adequately explained by Penn and Teller?
So?
No, it's necessary to prevent other people from ignoring the hypothetical and going 'I trick Omega! ha ha ha I are so clever!' This is as about as interesting as saying, in response to the trolley dilemma, 'I always carry a grenade with me, so instead of choosing between the 5 people and the fat man, I just toss the grenade down and destroy the track! ha ha ha I are so clever!'
'I am important! You should treat me nicer!'
Multiple people have already pointed it out here, which should tell you something about how widespread that simple observation is - why on earth do you need a link? (Also, if you are "very smart", it should have been easy to construct the obvious Google query.)