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    It is not the case that The fugitive in the river-crossing game cannot rely on a pure strategy to escape the pursuer.

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    • 1.Asymmetric information or cognitive limitations can break the symmetry of reasoning that P3 assumes, allowing deterministic advantage.
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    • 2.Newcomb's problem (Nozick 1969) shows that causal asymmetry between agents can make one agent's reasoning epistemically inaccessible to another.
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    • 3.If the pursuer cannot causally influence the fugitive's already-completed choice, backward induction reasoning may favor a pure strategy for the fugitive.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations suggest no algorithm guarantees another agent interprets or replicates your reasoning identically.
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    • 2.If the pursuer's duplication of reasoning is itself uncertain, a pure strategy chosen via opaque or idiosyncratic reasoning may be unpredictable in practice.
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    • 1.If the fugitive's reasoning selects a particular bridge as optimal, the pursuer can duplicate that reasoning.
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    • 2.The fugitive can escape only if the pursuer cannot reliably predict which bridge the fugitive will use.
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    • 3.Symmetry of logical reasoning power between the two players means the pursuer can replicate any deterministic reasoning the fugitive uses.
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