Heh, reminds me of John Titor, the time traveler from the future who was working on the Year 2038 problem: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread61544/pg1
I never thought I'd see ATS referenced on HN...
Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
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#92I'm about to go back in time. If I succeed, the silicon transistor gets invented in 1954 and Christmas goes to happen in the winter (northern hemisphere).
Wait ... how did you do that?!
How could I know? It was the me from the other timeline.
I don't know why HN shows comments from the alternate timelines, I'd file a bug for that if they had a bugtracker.
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Why just Hitler? Stalin and Mao were arguably equally as bad: http://necrometrics.com/tyrants.htm And there are monsters like Leopold II of Belgium (possible victims in the range 2-15 million) who hardly anyone remembers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#Exploitat... Actually, as hardly anyone remembers Leopold II maybe he is the ideal target.... :-| [NB I eventually remembered that I'm against the…
Actually, the H man and those guys don't make the cut. The ones deserving of time-travel assassination have already been dealt with. Hence we don't know of them.
Exactly. If we are going to hypothesize about time travelers then we have to accept that any significant reason to time travel has already happened. Futhermore it has happened more times than we are aware of to create our specific timeline.
Maybe Hitler was a time traveler himself.
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#94The only famous person that I can suspect of being a time traveler is Warren Buffet. It would make so much sense.
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#95Satoshi is a time traveller...
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#96I've never understood this logic. If say time travel is invented in year 3000. Then surely by 3050 it would be affordable for a certain segment of society. And be 3070 available for a mass market. And by 3100 available in watch form. So shouldn't we expect there to be millions/billions of people interfering with the past. A significant percentage of which would be deliberately aiming to manipulate, destroy, communica…
Or we are the future as it's happening so its up to us to figure it out.
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#98I'm not sure why time travellers from the future would bother to leave prescient messages on the net. What's the motivation? Something like graffiti artists tagging difficult locations? What I can see them (hypothetically) doing is manipulating present-day financial markets by exploiting their knowledge of future events (e.g. sudden commodity shortages or unexpected mineral discoveries) to increase their wealth. Even…
I think the idea is that they would go back to stop the 9/11 attacks, and then on the day prior would look up "flight 11, flight 175, flight 77, flight 93" in google (maybe in separate searches) to see exactly when/where they took off. They wouldn't mean to leave the clue, but no one should have any reason to connect those 4 flights together until the next day.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point. All the early bitcoin miners are clearly suspect. And Satoshi Nakamoto's sudden appearance and then disappearance now makes total sense.
Combining time travel and computation has interesting results: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.artic...
Totally serious question: If I go back to 1990, can I distribute a current version of emacs? The toolchain to build the current source tree won't exist for a while.
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#100The core assumption here is that there is only one physical reality "spread" along the timeline.
Another representation of universe is that there are infinite number of parallel, simultaneous parallel realities all simultaneously existing in the present moment. There is no past and future.
Dodge that!