@CortAmmon @James @AndyD273 have you heard of Yudkowsky’s Law of Mad Science: “Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.”

@Green *chuckles* Nope, haven't heard of that one. But it certainly sounds like his sense of humor!

Its an even more terrifying thought when combined with the fact that IQ numbers are normalized to the population.

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Time travel only becomes messy when the time traveler have ripple proof memory, because then the amount of bytes to record the events goes exponential

This is because not only the positions matter, but the whole trajectory

In the full theory of temporal mechanics, there will be multiple time travelers carrying their trajectories throughout the multiple points in time and each history change they remember in memory, meshed and intertwine together

Time travel with become a complex system as soon the number of interacting time travelers goes to 2

@CortAmmon Perhaps this is why we don't see any advanced civs? Eventually, technology gets so advanced that even the stupidest, most backward country bumpkin can end the world.

"Hold ma' beer! Watch this!"

"oops"

@Green I'm reasonably sure it's just that they didn't factor in the speed of light or something

@Green The impact scar is handy I need a largish rocky island anyway.

@Mithrandir24601 Sure, nothing linearly increases forever.

@Green actually, one of the topics I love to explore is the question of how does a civilization advance without being destroyed by this effect. Sometimes I find myself exploring what turns out to be history (such as how you structure a court around a king to ensure most people do not have the opportunity to topple a monarchy)