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Check again.

Don’t do it-It’s a trap!

Hey, you dudes arguing about how many times Czarcasm posted. You do realize, do you not, that the post count can be incremented before a post is made as well as after? That number is (until you actually click on it) just a superposition of various possible numbers that it could be, with those numbers that approximate your actual post count having the highest probability of being actually observed. Causality, not necessarily operating solely forward in time, could allow the count to be incremented prior to a post actually being made.

If you see a post count higher than the actual number of posts, you can be sure that the stated number of posts will eventually appear (typically, quite soon), and eventually even more posts as well.

BUT, if you use this advance knowledge of the number of posts to predict that (for example, if you are placing bets on it), then it doesn’t work that way. When you do that, the advance knowledge of the eventual post count gets voided, and will then have only coincidental (if any) relation to “reality”. For some values of “reality” anyway.

Now I am confused.

Okay, maybe this will be clearer:

One could derive the same conclusion from a relativistic argument too, very simply. Various observers, noting the displayed post count, and counting the actual post count, could get different results depending on their various frames of reference. Observers from different reference frames will not agree on the chronological sequence of events they observe, and it is entirely possible for one observer to see the post count incremented after the post is made (or simultaneously), while another observer sees the post count incremented before the post is made.

He’s saying that what I post may not have any connection to reality.

Or, say rather, not necessarily the connection that you think it has.

So you agree with me. Good.

Must…resist…smart-ass…remark.

See, if the mods had been really on top of things and closed this thread way back then, we never would have gotten this all cleared up and explained.

It all makes sense now

Stop doing that! It makes think I’m lagging behind and need to post to catch up.
:mad:

This thread should be a sticky.

If we keep posting to it, it will be effectively a sticky. Especially in ATMB where things move slowly. Hmmm, I wonder if I’ve posted? Better check. :slight_smile:




Who Posted?
Total Posts: 34
User Name	Posts
Czarcasm	8
iiandyiiii	5
Zeldar	4
Senegoid	4
PlainJain	3
running coach	3
FXMastermind	2
Asimovian	1
Giles	1
LSLGuy	1
John Mace	1
kayaker	1
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