it got near the time travel interpretation for me when importantly > potential wrongness / small inaccuracy is considered > > i mean basically, we'd only like to teleport into times that are known for > certain (one simple approach could be to set a norm of teleporting into > recorded time > )-- > > but that's not quite the same .......... i mean if you're teleporting 4 > light years away going 4 years back in time is different. oh! and it trades > off certainty of your state for certainty of your destination's. > > so when things aren't perfectly modeled we enter the same old spacd of > handling "updates" for shifted timelines and such > > so, what the dictators'd have you do is to have your body and memories > rewritten to keep the product perfect, nobody the wiser > > but of course what surgical crimes and such show is that communication, > consent, and multiple options are needed. people will mostly choose memory > rewriting once it can be done hyperaccurately and the suspicious people who > don't all confirm everything is up and up >
what kind of--
