The worry is not that you can change the future, itβs that you canβt predict what large change your small action will make. Be careful, literally anything you do might doom the human race!
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Whoops! I just stepped in this pool of primordial goo.
Whoops! Nothing happened.
See what you've done?
This is exactly what I was thinking of when I made the original comment. I'm glad you got it.
Hey 000, I have a temporal crime to report
I may have doomed humanity by choosing to smoke this fat spliff and not engage with it outside of the small subset who are on Lemmy
If only you had chosen the slightly-less-fat spliff we would have all survivedβ¦
Humanity and my sanity be hanging in the balance of my enormous cannapetite. Damn that's a terrifying responsibility. I'd better smoke another to calm down
Or perhaps you've saved us all!
You're right! I'd better keep at it! It is a powerful responsibility but I'm blessed with a particular set of skills. Skills i have gained over a long career.
There goes my hero.
Right there with you. I feel like Iβve somehow made a positive change.
Same as now
This is a brilliant observation.
Y'know how we view strangers as 'props' in our own story? That's precisely how we are viewed by them. You aren't important in the grand scheme of things so go out there and live the life you want. No one cares. No one is stopping you either
Y'know how we view strangers as 'props' in our own story?
I'm sorry, what? No, I don't know about that.
NPCs, then. People, where their existence in your story is highly contextual, and outside of that they don't exist. The bus driver. The barista. The lady walking down the street. The guy you sometimes see on your way to work, as he has the same commute as you.
I view them as people, each with their own unique and individual world.
Sounds exhausting.
Whassat feeling called again? S something. (Looks it up) Sonder!
I think usually this is also portrayed mostly when people go back 63 million years, not when they went back 20.
Idk man, Marty Mcfly just kissed his mother and ended up uninventing himself.
Yeah, I think that kind of shows how easily small things affect personal relationships. Something like deciding to go to a party can cause you to meet your spouse, fall in love, and have kids, grandkids, etc.
Big events like starting a war or who ends up in charge of a country would be harder to affect. But yeah, you could easily fuck up a family or cause yourself not to exist.
This makes me realize that even time travelers can't change much.
If i knew the future, i could!