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Charity led me to understand "precedes us" to mean takes precedence over us in a non-chronological sense.
But as long as we're here... why would you do that? If a system is designed to alter the future of the world in a way I endorse, it seems I ought to be willing to endorse it altering the past that way too. If I'm unwilling to endorse it altering the past, it's not clear why I would be willing to endorse it altering the future.
Charity led me to understand that, because the use of that word only makes sense in the case time travel, he just meant to use another word that means succeeds, replaces or 'is greater than'. But time travel is more interesting.
Google led me to understand that 'precede' is in fact such a word. Agreed about time travel, though.
(My googling leads me to maintain that the use of precede in that context remains wrong.)
I can't find a source for that pronoun in Dwelle's past posts.