Re: Time telephone

On Mar 18, 5:42 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
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On Mar 18, 12:34 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
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On 18 Mar 2007 00:17:24 -0700, "Williamknowsbest"
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If you had a time telephone who would you call?

Someone next week to tell me the winning numbers of the next euro
lottery.

So you could split the prize with 64 million other winners?

Hardly seems worth the effort.

Which reveals the wastefulness of lotteries - that's worth the service
right there - a tax on the foolish or the statistically naive.

Sending information through time about stock winners would also be
interesting. Money would flow away from losers to winners and
successful investment capital would be more quickly rewarded.
Increasing overall wealth.

Umm, no,

You assume wrongly that trading stocks is very much like playing the
lottery. There are fundamental things that are going on that make
investing in stocks different than playing the lottery. The abiility
of a company to earn profits for example. People would tend to quickly
invest in companies that earned profits and avoid those that did not
earn profits.

To the extent it is unknown which company will actually earn profits
stock market can look a lot like a lottery. But to the extent it can
be known that companies will earn profits and what those profits will
be would benefit investors.


basically it wouldn't change a thing since ultimately everyone
would have access to the same information, basically the status quo.


Again, your assumption is wrong. Some companies like GE actually
create wealth, other companies like Enron, do not. So, to the extent
money is NOT invested in Enron and invested in GE everyone benefits.



Stopping crime is another version of the grandfather paradox. Someone
breaks in my house and robs me. Cops identify the miscreants and send
a signal back in time and arrest the fellows as they step in the front
door. There was a movie like this with Tom Cruise - that would be a
huge benefit. Minority Report - they used ESP not time telephones.

Terror attacks, IEDs, military attacks, could all be prevented before
they happened. Which would be awesome. Though philisophically
problematical. But that's true with other aspects of quantum theory
as well.

Until the terrorists watch the cops spring their time trap and call their
associates and tell them to show up 15 minutes earlier and ambush the
policy.

Assuming the terrorists have access to time telephones - this creates
many paradoxes - the police would of course respond. So, what
determines the outcome? The terrorists live in a world where they
prevail always, the cops live in a world they prevail always - and
there is peace in both worlds.




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