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Maybe just semantics, but I think I would call that prediction. Even if you have perfect perception (measuring the current state of the world perfectly), it's nontrivial to predict the future paths of other actors. The prediction problem requires intuition about what the other actors are thinking, how their plans influence each other, and how your plan influences them.


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