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Unfortunately, to know which future is the least bad, you have to solve the Halting Problem.
by notduncansmith 7y ago
Unfortunately, to know which future is the least bad, you have to solve the Halting Problem.
- Razengan 7y agoOr you can keep going back in time whenever a catastrophe happens, to prevent it. This probably creates multiple timelines and we just happen to be in the one where most large scale conflicts didn't get prevented (yet.)
- stallmanite 7y agoNot to jinx it but the absence of large-scale nuclear conflict 1950-present seems pretty improbable and definitely very nice to have as far as counterfactual timelines go.