<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If they can bring the narrator to the future, can't they check their own future, adjusting things until it looks good?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Isn't that a depressing thought?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>