Eugine_Nier comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 October 2012 05:33:34AM 0 points [-]

Individual events which have out-connections but not in-connections, by contrast, seems like a fairly interesting question to explore. Why DO we assume that all evens have in-connections?

Not all, the past doesn't have in-connections and the future doesn't have out-connections.

Comment author: handoflixue 15 October 2012 05:53:06PM 0 points [-]

Can you explain what you mean by that? I tend to model past events as having even-further-past causes. I definitely model future events as having even-farther-future ramifications. So they'd seem to generally have both in and out.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 October 2012 03:42:48AM 0 points [-]

I was referring to the past (or future) as a whole.

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