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  • Think of it this way.

    “I went back in time to save my family” in an infinite timelines story means that going back in time spawns in infinite number of worlds that didn’t exist before, in which the family doesn’t make it, and an infinite number in which they do. And not a single one of those families is the “real” family of the person who went back in time.

    The fact that the author choose to focus on one perspective in which it seems like the time travel has made a difference, doesn’t change the fact that it didn’t make a difference, and the family they were trying to save is gone. The infinite copies weren’t “saved” from anything, because there are infinite versions that weren’t.

    The only way to tell a meaningful story in that situation is to create situation where the actions of jumping back in time alter the future of the person jumping back in time. And that means you either suck up the paradoxes, or you write a clever story in which the paradoxes are neatly accounted for before they ever occur (or you write a closed loop story)

    Edit - Or you could tell a non infinite loop story, where a single universe is spawned by the act of jumping back in time. That still won’t save the “real” versions of the family you jumped back to save, they’re still gone, but at least it creates only a single version of them that the character can save.










  • It’s not a “common practice on blahaj”. It’s just how lemmy does instance bans.

    I generally don’t community ban people, I tend to instance ban them, because if they’re breaking community rules, but not instance rules, it’s up the community mods to deal with, and if they’re breaking instance rules, they get an instance ban.

    And when you instance ban someone, and choose to remove their content, that’s what it looks like in a modlog. It’s not because I’ve gone and selected a whole bunch of community bans. It’s just how lemmy works




  • Apologies, I copied and pasted the answer below from another reply I made elsewhere in this thread

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    I’m not talking about about the possibility of real infinite dimensions. I’m talking about sci fi, and stories, which is the context of the OPs question.

    In a “real” scenario, the experience that matters is the one I’m having, not the one other versions of me might be having.

    But in a story, there is no “true” timeline, or a more “real” timeline. They’re all being retold to us indirectly, and the choice of the version of the person retelling those experiences is arbitrary by the author. It doesn’t matter what perspective the author chooses, because every other outcome also happened, the author just didn’t tell us those stories.


  • I’m not talking about about the possibility of real infinite dimensions. I’m talking about sci fi, and stories, which is the context of the OPs question.

    In a “real” scenario, the experience that matters is the one I’m having, not the one other versions of me might be having.

    But in a story, there is no “true” timeline, or a more “real” timeline. They’re all being retold to us indirectly, and the choice of the version of the person retelling those experiences is arbitrary by the author. It doesn’t matter what perspective the author chooses, because every other outcome also happened, the author just didn’t tell us those stories.




  • I’ve got a question about how reitti calculates significant places/visits.

    I was thinking of adjust gps logger so that it doesn’t log points if they’re within 10m of the last point it logged. That will clear up the data when I’m at home or work, so that there is less of a random squiggle of location data. It will record me arriving at home, and leaving home, but not much in between.

    Will that impact how reitti calculates locations though? Is it looking at the number of points, or is it simply a matter of duration within a particular vicinity?


  • Having all of this data stored in a location I can control has been really good.

    But yesterday, it was pointed out to me that the API reitti provides means I have access to over a decades worth of location history that I can use to geotag my photo collection! That is a game changer. I’ve been trying to find a way to pull that information from google location history for a long time, and it turns out, you’ve created it!

    This is really valuable to me, so I want you to know just how much I appreciate the effort you’ve put in to making it. Thank you