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Aug 8, 2020 at 0:08 vote accept Incognito
Feb 25, 2019 at 21:35 answer added 1006a timeline score: 0
Feb 25, 2019 at 17:20 history protected L.Dutch
Feb 25, 2019 at 17:17 answer added Yakk timeline score: 1
Feb 25, 2019 at 16:15 answer added Rupert Hide timeline score: 1
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Feb 25, 2019 at 15:00 answer added Fizker timeline score: 2
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Feb 25, 2019 at 14:23 comment added cybernard You solved your own problem " When a person dies,". So if they live to be 100 then you have to wait 100 years to get at the information they have. Short of murdering people, there knowledge won't be shared until death.
Feb 25, 2019 at 10:57 answer added walrus timeline score: 4
Feb 25, 2019 at 1:48 answer added ununseti timeline score: 4
Feb 24, 2019 at 22:00 comment added Lightness Races in Orbit @Separatrix Woah, that's... really good story potential actually. Flips the whole crime lord / witness dynamic right on its head. State wants to murder witnesses to "get them to talk" and it's the crims that are protecting them all and keeping them safe/alive. By the end of the story, who is the criminal, really?
Feb 24, 2019 at 19:35 comment added dotancohen Isaac Asimov addressed this issue.
Feb 24, 2019 at 11:32 answer added Tanmay timeline score: 2
Feb 24, 2019 at 9:08 comment added Stilez What happens to the universal record, if someone dies who is delusional, or with a biased view of an event, or who has a very strong belief or a genuine misunderstanding about something
Feb 24, 2019 at 3:36 comment added pojo-guy Since human memory does not keep a clear linear account of events on the individual scale, there can be no clear linear account of events at the macro scale. Only a statistically weighted probability - one in which the bystanders that were tricked by a subterfuge would outweigh the true memory of the perpetrator, for example.
Feb 24, 2019 at 3:10 history edited Cyn CC BY-SA 4.0
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Feb 23, 2019 at 22:44 answer added Paralyzoid timeline score: 2
Feb 23, 2019 at 21:20 comment added Jasper By "In this world", do you mean "In the world that I am building"? Or do you mean "In the real world"?
Feb 23, 2019 at 19:21 comment added jamesqf Consider that your oracle is essentially trying to choose which one of several billion channels of TV reruns to watch.
Feb 23, 2019 at 18:45 comment added nasch Since when are humans unbiased with regard to facts? Or anything?
Feb 23, 2019 at 18:18 answer added LSerni timeline score: 3
Feb 23, 2019 at 18:03 answer added Willk timeline score: 12
Feb 23, 2019 at 18:01 answer added Xavon_Wrentaile timeline score: 3
Feb 23, 2019 at 16:13 answer added DVNO timeline score: 2
Feb 23, 2019 at 15:39 comment added Michael Richardson Your "one, linear version...that dont depend on interpretation" depends entirely upon the interpretation of the oracle.
Feb 23, 2019 at 14:50 answer added Erin Thursby timeline score: 15
Feb 23, 2019 at 14:41 comment added Dan Are the experiences they peruse perfectly preserved images, or are they taken from a person's memory at the time of death? (I.e., is it literally a "perfect" historical record, or subject to the faults of memory and perspective?)
Feb 23, 2019 at 14:29 answer added Escaped dental patient. timeline score: 3
Feb 23, 2019 at 14:19 answer added Demigan timeline score: 18
Feb 23, 2019 at 13:40 answer added Shadow1024 timeline score: 8
Feb 23, 2019 at 13:06 answer added The Square-Cube Law timeline score: 46
Feb 23, 2019 at 12:56 comment added Separatrix There's a quirk in your mechanics, that being that a businessman would only know about his rival's activities if an immediate witness has since died. So "businessmen" who go around killing witnesses will have much larger presences to the oracles, keeping witnesses alive as long as possible is a better way to silence them.
Feb 23, 2019 at 12:44 answer added Separatrix timeline score: 20
Feb 23, 2019 at 12:27 history asked Incognito CC BY-SA 4.0