Comments on: Leftist bloggers and media’s backlash at the prediction markets - REDUX http://www.midasoracle.org/2006/11/13/leftist-bloggers-and-media%e2%80%99s-backlash-at-the-prediction-markets-redux/ Prediction Markets For All Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:46:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Crosbie Fitch http://www.midasoracle.org/2006/11/13/leftist-bloggers-and-media%e2%80%99s-backlash-at-the-prediction-markets-redux/#comment-153 Crosbie Fitch Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:26:33 +0000 http://www.midasoracle.org/2006/11/13/leftist-bloggers-and-media%e2%80%99s-backlash-at-the-prediction-markets-redux/#comment-153 Well, there is the parallel worlds option. This is that all possible potential future universes actually exist. Therefore it is possible to be informed of potential futures, but not possible to select which of those futures one will visit (as a consequence of one's knowledge). Interestingly, it is possible to be informed of a future in which one was informed of the future, but unfortunately that will not be a future one can visit. So, you can know a future you cannot visit, or you can visit a future you cannot know. Well, there is the parallel worlds option.

This is that all possible potential future universes actually exist. Therefore it is possible to be informed of potential futures, but not possible to select which of those futures one will visit (as a consequence of one’s knowledge).

Interestingly, it is possible to be informed of a future in which one was informed of the future, but unfortunately that will not be a future one can visit.

So, you can know a future you cannot visit, or you can visit a future you cannot know.

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