Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Computer Is Cataloging Your Choice
The computer is only cataloging your choice. The computer isn't predicting from first principles what you're going to do. So it's really just because they have time travel,. But it doesn't mean that your choice didn't determine the future. And there is no way to to show whether or not you could have chosen the other thing. Right. They're just simply isn't the way because you have closed off and it's in essence, you've closed off a bunch of branches by making the choice that you did to press the button. If they could do this without time travel, I would get it. if they could just do it just by scanning like your body and the state of
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