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by cfcf14 1402 days ago
Completely agree! It's not even clear who is asking. Causality is erased, as you say.

"I have an ask for you" - is it my ask? Am I conveying somebody else's ask? Who knows? It's atemporal, acausal, you can choose to investigate by querying but there's a good chance the response is going to be a shrug and a small, apologetic smile accompanied by "ah - you know, the usual" at which point you'll sigh and respond with "yep - ok, let me see if I have the bandwidth and circle back to you on that".