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by JoelEinbinder 1507 days ago
Yes but it’s not obvious that it’s obvious to the other person that it was delivered. And so on.
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Yeah; ultimately no matter how many levels of acknowledgement, the other army's decision to attack is predicated on receiving an acknowledgement to the most recent message, not past ones (else you don't need an acknowledgement at all). There's an inductive principle at play; even at 100 levels deep it's the same problem as the original.