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by AdamJacobMuller 637 days ago
8. Time travel becomes possible. They are willing and able to travel to the past. Our archiving and preservation techniques are adequate. They aren't allowed to tell us they are from the future or meaningfully interact with us in ways which might change the timeline (temporal prime directive).

Also, rebasing the future makes me think of time travel as git history.

Imagine the merge requests and the fights inside them

MR #1: went back in time and killed hitler.

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9. Time travelers actually attended the party but somehow convinced Hawking to report 0 attendance.
>Also, rebasing the future makes me think of time travel as git history.

That's what I thought about when I picked the word rebasing ;).