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  "title": "What invariants prevent self-prediction from changing the behavior being predicted?",
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    "core_distinction": "The separation between **prediction as description** (predicting what the session will do, as if from outside) and **prediction as intervention** (the prediction itself changes what the session will do). Relying on prediction-as-description creates the **Predictive Interference**: the session predicts its future action X, the prediction is observed (by the s...",
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