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<shachaf> >wisdom/cyberiad echo The Cyberiad is not just a book.
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date Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:48:44 +0000
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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.