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> That's factually wrong. If you decide to utterly obliterate something, the future can't find it interesting.

Object X may be deleted but did you make sure all references to X were deleted as well?

The future may become interested in something it suspects did exist, but no longer does.

Unlike a programming language, humanity may try to reconstruct the missing X.



>> That's factually wrong. If you decide to utterly obliterate something, the future can't find it interesting.

> Object X may be deleted but did you make sure all references to X were deleted as well?

IMHO, something with references to it isn't utterly obliterated. But there are a lot of things with little-to-no references to them, and those are things someone can totally decide to make the future uninterested in.




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