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> Please disregard this inconsistency guff! The Universe isn't Eventually Consistent. It's simply consistent. We agree except for what we mean by "eventually"
by rlpb 8y ago
> Please disregard this inconsistency guff! The Universe isn't Eventually Consistent. It's simply consistent.
We agree except for what we mean by "eventually" which is just semantics. What I mean by "eventually" is that eventually all the information arrives for my (or anyone's) model of the universe to match reality, analogous to eventually consistent distributed databases. Like an eventually consistent database however we can never catch up completely, since new events are happening in the universe all the time. It takes time for this information to "replicate", but there is no inconsistency. I was following lkrubner's analogy.