Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposals

[Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I dispute the currently favored interpretation. I think
unaltered universes in a timeline where time travel isn't barred from
efficacy are not self consistent. I also think a single retroalterable
timeline is more fun, and so I like the notion that this game is "really"
B(1-11)(1-7).

(Of course we can always set up ambiguous situations where we still have to
track what game actions mean for various woobleverses, but that is a
separate concern.)

- teucer

On 12:29pm, Fri, May 22, 2015 Peter Cooper Jr. <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jonathan David Amery writes:
> > Craig Daniel writes:
> > > Second, your green proposal purports to destroy non-prime Everett
> branches.
> > > It in fact splits any universe in which it passed into two, one of
> which
> > > appears to be identical to B' for all useful purposes (but can be
> > > distinguished from it by phrases like "if the ineffectual Proposal 1-7
> > > passed").
> >
> >  Yes, and in all branches in which it works it works.  The
> > *interpretation* of the rules is the same, even if the history is
> > different.
> >
> >  I don't think it's actually possible to destroy Everett branches; at
> > least until/unless someone creates a mechanism for one branch to
> > interact with another.
>
> I originally thought that "What Happens If It Eats Itself?" wasn't going
> to do anything, but then I remembered that we are now resolving proposals
> in reverse order. As though time travel isn't confusing enough itself.
>
> I do agree that under the structure I've basically set up, we don't have a
> way to destroy universes, except perhaps via a proposal like "If there
> doesn't exist a Rule titled 'Temporal Prime Directive', end the game." It's
> not clear what that would even do, though.
>
> It will get unwieldy very quickly if every time-travelling prop doubles
> the number of universes we have, though.
>
> --
> Peter C.
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