On Sat, 20 Oct 2018, Kerim Aydin wrote:
How is this different than self-ratification - when it self-ratifies a week after publication, it ratifies the past condition as being true as of that past date, correct? If not, we're really messed up.
I think it works fine as long as the published document (self-ratifying or not) speaks about "concrete" game state at the moment of publishing, because then it's fairly obvious how the game state could be minimally corrected at _that_ moment in isolation.
But when a published document speaks about game state in the past relative to that document, intervening events can cause the effect of a small change at the initial moment to blow up into a large change at the later one, or theoretically vice versa.
This could cause the minimal change requirement, which speaks about the later time, to select a completely different way of correcting the document than what an intuitive "change the past to be true" way of thinking would imply.
Greetings, Ørjan.
