Any sufficiently comprehensive counterfactual collapses back onto history. Counterfactual premises are reality leaks into abstractions.
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Constructing counterfactuals is the problem of creating abstractions with the slowest reality leaks. Fail slow instead of fail fast.
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Therefore: IF fail fast is an optimal approach to making new realities, THEN counterfactuals are optimally bad ways of imagining them. QED?
