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coffee notes made this morning: an economy based on acausal trade between past and future (along a significant tech gradient)

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@allgebrah

May 19, 2016

yep, that's in my reading queue! Have pushed it to the top, will maybe get around to it friday or weekend

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in fact part of the notes I didn't post concerns itself with the relationship between agency and time

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first impression: the math looks reasonably simple but not all that easy, to play with it would still be a lot of effort

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I think the relevant arrow here is the psychological one, creating "what one does not yet know"

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it explicitly doesn't say that psych. and thermodyn. arrow can be opposed, it would be an interesting implication though

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consider two civilizations living in different arrows, either completely ignoring each other, or trading

8:12 PM · May 20, 2016Twitter Web Client

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also, what happens to the psych arrow when the thermodynamic one reverses? do we get a timeless moment?

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or does it maybe happen inhomogenously and there are, briefly, coexisting zones of countervalent arrows?

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