Timeline for How can I prevent an oracle who can see into the past from knowing everything that has happened?
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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 |