And the child-Eliezer asked his mind to search for arguments that there was a chocolate cake in the asteroid belt. Lo, his mind returned the reply: “Since the asteroid-belt-chocolate-cake is one of the classic examples of a bad hypothesis, if anyone ever invents a time machine, some prankster will toss a chocolate cake back into the 20th-century asteroid belt, making it true all along.”
Worse still, it will be someone who didn’t come up with the idea on their own but rather read this OB/LW post and decided to do that.
Worse still, it will be someone who didn’t come up with the idea on their own but rather read this OB/LW post and decided to do that.
Still not worried.