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If someone were to restore the universe from a faulty backup, would we even know there was anything missing? Assuming the consistency checks passed.


> Assuming the consistency checks passed.

You have a lot more faith in world-ops than I do. You think the have tests and checks?


Even if they restored us from a good backup, we probably wouldn't like the debugging session that follows.


The dark matter is just ghosts of println/log statements?


so that's where my socks have been going missing!


And here I was, attributing it to intermittently tangent universes: at points where they touch, random things can cross over.




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