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<shachaf> addquote <mnoqy> the theory\'s probably not \x02bad\x0f, but calculus is one of those things that\'s so dang applicable that everyone only ever talks about how to apply it and compute with it and uuuuurgh(barf) <mnoqy> so i stay away from it
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436) <oklopol> half the time the time travel model is one where a consistent universe essentially seems impossible if it supports any nontrivial agent-like behavior (because certainly one agent will want to destroy it using a retarded paradox), the other half seems to actually assume an implicit extra time axis and moving in time is still moving forward on this axis, you are just given a copy of past contents of the world.