Me: “Look buddy I warned you to pick the future powers instead, this one’s on you.”

Not really. You see all diverging paths and all the inevitabilities, which converge them back.

The sad bit is that Paul tries his best to stir the future in a way for avoiding the holly war (jihad) in his name. He becomes a prophet in the desert and foresees the extinction of humanity. His son (Leto Atreides II) takes the golden path. He merges with the worms, which produce the spice and lives for more than 3 500 years being a God Emperor. He is able to see the future too. During that period Arakis is no more a desert planet, the worms producing the spice are extinct, the genealogical Bene Gesserit “program” is taken over by Leto II…

There is only one future you can live through. You are assuming what others are assuming. Imagine having the knowledge of all possible outcomes of a Go board. That will be a solution to the mathematical problem, which is the game of Go. Once solved you shall know who the winner always will be (depending on komi). Is it always a win for the Black, is it always a win for the White, and with the proper komi – is it always a draw. Once solved this you can not loose. In the situation of a proper komi and always a draw game, you can not win either. A mind reader is irrelevant in this case. It will all depend on the solution to the game and on the nigiri. Prescience beats mind reading on nigiri always. You can as well throw mind reading away, or taking it on a ride, foreseeing billions of possible futures. Mind reading should have to make a choice at some point, which will collapse the future. For mind reading the connection between the choice and the effects of it may not be as clear as for the seeing the future. Imagine living your life, and then imagine someone watching a movie based on the story someone else wrote about you living your life. The mind is an interpreter, and you are able to set it aside whenever you wish to. Knowing the future does not require

you to think about it. It you are not thinking about it, what is there on your mind, which a mind reader would be able to read? Nothing, or something not connected to the game, you are “playing”… Knowing the future is more like a constant state of a déjà vu. It’s hard to explain.  Once you remember being in such a state there is nothing to be explained, really. You just know.

Uncertainty comes from the existence of multiple variables (humans) and the unpredictability of some human beings. In a Go game those are not an issue. You have a mathematical solution to the game. A path from beginning to end, which should lead to 100% win with the current rules. If you know the solution to the game, all will depend on nigiri. Prescience beats mind reading on nigiri every time. You eleminate chance with it.