soreff comments on Rationality Quotes September 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: soreff 15 September 2014 12:44:11AM 1 point [-]

Or that the interval between X and Y is spacelike, and neither is in the other's forward light cone... :)

Comment author: shminux 15 September 2014 11:52:02PM 4 points [-]

Some day the light speed delay might become an issue in historical investigations, but not quite yet :) Even then in the statement "if you claim that X caused Y, the minimum you need to know is that X came before Y, not afterwards" the term "before" implies that one event is in the causal future of the other.