I sometimes think about informational life before the invention of effectively instantaneous communication aka telegraph. Before then it didn’t matter how important a bit was, it traveled at the speed of transportation on average. Best case was line of sight optical semaphore.
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I’m kinda segueing into it with
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Yes that’s where I think I lucked up the idea
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Or transmit an appropriately coarse-/fine-grained copy of yourself as a zero-latency local representative.
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Yep though state divergence
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It’s not forgotten. Just look at what people did during the war. You write short letters every day with updates and responses.
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