[ExI] far future

[Stephen Van Sickle]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

If they can bring the narrator to the future, can't they check their own
> future, adjusting things until it looks good?


The Pangloss Theory of Time Travel:  Time travelers iteratively intervene
in the past, until they reach some sort of maximum or equilibrium where no
further improvements are possible.  Therefore, the world we experience now
is literally the best of all possible worlds.

Isn't that a depressing thought?
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