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Comment author: FiftyTwo 20 June 2014 01:21:58PM 3 points [-]

I have invented a wormhole with ends separated by ten seconds in time. Unfortunately the power requirements scale exponentially with size so its not practical for anything larger than photons, but it does mean I can send information back in time. How would you exploit this?

Comment author: asr 20 June 2014 01:58:11PM 8 points [-]

High frequency stock trading.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 21 June 2014 10:56:38PM 2 points [-]

What happens if mutliple agents have this ability? Does the impact of future knowledge cancel out or do we get some sort of weird hyper fast feedback loops?

Comment author: peter_hurford 20 June 2014 02:14:37PM *  2 points [-]

See Primer (2004 film).

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