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Everyone knows about the butterfly effect, but I've never seen anyone notice quite how powerful it is, so I thought I'd post it here.
Here is how strong it is: Every single decision you've ever made has determined which people were born thereafter, how every sporting event transpired, every 4chan get, and probably every other known fact about the world.
You only need to accept two claims to get this:
1. Small differences magnify.
If you take a second longer to cum in your girlfriend, a different sperm will get through. If Chapman takes a second longer to throw a pitch, he might throw a home run, and the cubs might not win the world series. Any small change in your life will inevitably get magnified into a large one.
2. Small differences spread exponentially.
Suppose you sleep in for one extra second before work. Your life is now slightly different. You will greet your boss one second later, and so his life will also be slightly different. And every person your boss interacts with will also have a slightly different life. This slight difference will spread exponentially throughout the population, soon infecting every human on earth.
Accepting these two facts, it becomes clear that every decision you make causes a slight difference to ripple throughout humanity, which will become magnified into a large difference every time someone impregnates a chick or throws a pitch. So every decision you makes completely rewrites future history.
If I'd made this post a week ago, then the Cubs might not have won the world series.
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Yes. This makes me indecisive. Which I don't really think is a good thing... I'm open for debate, though
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>>8453434
Your actions integrate with billions of other small and big factors that shape the events around us. So whatever action you do is just a random number in an astronomic clusterfuck of an equation. There's literally no technology available to calculate these outcomes.
Even if we are pre-determined it's impossible for any machine to run such simulation.
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>>8453459
In case it wasn't clear, I'm not saying that every decision is the SOLE cause of every future outcome. It's just one of the trillion other causes.
This can be explained by a marketing idea of mine: Say Mountain Dew is deciding whether to release a new flavour, either blueberry or grape. They could put a button online that anyone could press, and then choose which flavour to release depending on whether the button was clicked an even or odd number of times.
Every single person who clicked the button could think "If I hadn't clicked the button, then there would be grape flavoured Mountain Dew in my fridge instead of blueberry." Every single person could think this, even though no person is the sole cause of Mountain Dew's decision.
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>>8453486
What the fuck
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That depends on your interpretation of quantum mechanics. It's possible that the universe is indeterministic.
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>>8453509
Even if the universe is indeterministic, the multiverse is still deterministic.
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Fuck off sci niggers
I entered this thread thinking I'd learn something about chaos in math and got a thread full off bullshit
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