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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by c22 on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:14PM (#20619050)
If you possessed such a device then errors in your "predictions" would be indicative of another party using a similar device. As such, I assume multiple parties would soon discover each other, engage in an incomprehensibly complex time-battle, and there would suddenly (instantaneously in all patched timelines) be only one such party.

Furthermore, I imagine it would be very easy for such a party to accidently blunder into a situation where they lose control of the time-messaging device, erasing all evidence of its own existence and leaving the timeline perturbation-free until such "time" as reverse time travel is rediscovered.

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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by Terr_ on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:53PM (#20621332)
In the book Singularity Sky [0], mankind invented the first time-looped computer, and it cycled up to a godlike overlord. After making a lot of very disruptive changes (which of course seem to be immediate to everyone else) it seems to have become surprisingly disinterested or uninvolved.

Anyway, it has only one hard "commandment": Nobody can violate causality anywhere inside its own historic light-cone, since doing so could be a potential attack (or competition) to its own existence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky

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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by Haga on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:56AM (#20622257)
Book was so much better than accelerando
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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by Galaxeblaffer on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:38PM (#20619905)
Future Diary has some pretty cool time battles. While it's not as good as death note, it definitely has it's moments. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2069441/?ref_=m_nv_sr_1
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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by alasano on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:21PM (#20619114)
As a fan of time travel movies, I'd watch this.
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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by ecnahc515 on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:45PM (#20620509)
You may like the anime Steins;Gate then. The plot is based on the idea of sending a small amount of information back in time and changing the sender's present, and then finds that another organization has been using this and is trying to control the world with the power.
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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by opnitro on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:24PM (#20620778)
Everyone in this thread should try Primer! Great little movie about a similar concept (smaller in scale though). Tries really hard to stick to its own rules.
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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by cwkoss on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:23PM (#20620323)
Or an episodic series where every episode has a new main character inventing time travel and then accidentally destroying the conditions that allowed then to invent time travel.
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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by eximius on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:28PM (#20619190)
Sounds like Dark.
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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by lonelappde on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:06PM (#20621038)
It's approximately the plot of Primer
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