You know who doesn’t believe in time travel? Time travelers. Specifically, people who write time travel debuggers, that record and replay the entire execution of “virtual” machines of various sorts. Useful, fun, fails delightfully quickly if you make a single mistake.
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(Seriously, it’s almost spooky how fast your universe collapses if your “global shutter” decides to roll a bit.)
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If you think failing quickly can’t be delightful, try debugging something that fails...slowly. That is not delightful. At all.
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“Time travel? Do you have ANY IDEA how much state that would require? You do know information is energy, don’t you?”
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“You think the universe just...remembers everything...for FREE? It’s just some ambient aspect, oh, sure, we’ve got logs going back to the Big Bang, every attosecond no big deal” so you’re saying the Big Bang was an EC2 bill
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somebody out there is gonna calculate the cost of storing the entire universe’s state per attosecond in s3 and they are going to make both me and
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Transporters? Sure, invertible mass/energy transformation, I can slap that together. Warp drive? Sure, speed of light has to come from something, it doesn’t have to be static. Anything with a different speed would be long gone anyway. Telepathy? Sure, brains have signals.
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eventually you have to give up on the idea that things are ever going to be the same.
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