[HN Gopher] Where Are All the Tourists from 3025?
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       Where Are All the Tourists from 3025?
        
       Author : warrenm
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-08-14 21:17 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | Makes me think of this Asimov classic where you really can change
       | the past
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       | https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.526852/mode/2up
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       | where it makes sense because people established an orthogonal
       | dimension of time and this movie
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_(film)
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       | based on another Heinlein classic
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27%E2%80%94All_You_Zombies%E2...
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       | where you can't because it's all just a knot.
        
       | Finnucane wrote:
       | they've all gone 4025, where the real party is.
        
         | tocs3 wrote:
         | I was about to say: This is not the best time to visit right
         | now. Mabey later.
        
       | Hatrix wrote:
       | Future people will have a Holodeck to simulate the past. No
       | reason to actually go there.
        
         | modzu wrote:
         | is it real? of course not. expensive? very.
        
       | VincentEvans wrote:
       | Maybe they are all mostly dead and ever-more-feral survivors
       | ridden by the radiation- and pollution-borne crippling genetic
       | sicknesses are birthing still-born and slowly dying out while
       | picking through the debris left from the civilizational collapse
       | caused by global warming, ai, and the resulting world wars.
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       | And the last stronghold of civilization are warlike and numerous
       | but illiterate Tate descendants in the mountains of Romania,
       | unable to build anything more advanced than a cudgel used in the
       | rituals to determine the alpha leader.
        
       | modzu wrote:
       | time travel backwards is impossible. but there are undoubtedly
       | time travelers from the past going forward in time
        
         | lordofgibbons wrote:
         | I've already been doing this for a while now ;)
        
       | Apocryphon wrote:
       | Looking at the actual link itself, is this one of those papers
       | that takes a thought experiment and tries to evaluate it using
       | abstract mathematics/statistics? That's what it looks like it's
       | doing. How is it actually useful to apply Markov chains to such
       | unknowable suppositions? Is this analytical philosophy
        
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