Jamie Dallaire on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:40:04 -0700 (MST) |
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Re: [s-d] [s-b] Logical Hand Grenade: 5 Seconds Later |
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Mike McGann <mike.mcgann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Jamie Dallaire > <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "3 minutes before the end of nday 8", I pay for retainer usurp the MoM. > > Right after that, I stop the clock. > > Therefore, nday 8 ends up not really ending, but rather the nday stays > > 8 and the ndelay increases. > > Let's say I have a meeting at 13:00. I go to lunch an hour before the > meeting and make this statement in an email. When I get back from > lunch, I find out that the meeting has been rescheduled to 16:00. Does > that mean I went out to lunch at 15:00? No. > > The action that was scheduled for 3 minutes before the end of nday 8 > occurred at the time that condition was true. Changing the end of the > nday after the action has happened doesn't all of a sudden undo that > action. Indeed it doesn't. But in that case, you went to lunch one hour before you THOUGHT the meeting would be held, not one hour before it WAS held. There is a difference with the case we have here. That said, I think it is correct to think that the temporal prime directive does prevent my attempt at paradox from succeeding. Drats! BP _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss