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[milkman76@syzito.xyz]

@skeletor errr, not really but good try anyway skeletor.

[loganer@mastodon.social]

@skeletor this is slightly inaccurate as several paths can lead to the same outcome ... however, I get it.

[derhinek@troet.cafe]

@skeletor Isn't this by someone else? Don't you want to credit them?

[somekindofgarf@kind.social]

@skeletor Second half really should be on a black background representing paths that are in fact unavailable, whether due to choices or circumstances.

[somekindofgarf@kind.social]

@derHinek @skeletor It's spread a ton of places. The earliest places I can find are on twitter and I don't go there anymore so I can't verify nothing.

[kittenkoder@mastodon.social]

@skeletor Unless you're a time traveler, there should be nothing green before today.

[hyc@mastodon.social]

@skeletor I've often described life this way as well. At the beginning, you can choose any direction in life. But the further you go down one path, the farther any other choices become. Some things become impossible to reach after you've gone far enough in a different direction. And if you've gone far enough in a particular direction, it gets easier to see what future choices you'll make, based on your history. Your choices become your fate.

[crow@pagan.plus]

@skeletor //: all probabilities are equally real and valid; only the actual is indexical. if it could be true, then it is--but only infinitesimal chances that it is true /for you/.

[unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz]

@skeletor

Skeletor you need some new alt text! That one doesn't describe your nice diagram at all.

[maris@c.im]

@skeletor
ah, the illusion of free will again

[leeloo@c.im]

@KittenKoder @skeletor
The one green path in the past is the one you took.

[bhasic@mastodon.social]

@skeletor If there is eternal inflation, every possible version of the universe exists.

[kittenkoder@mastodon.social]

@leeloo But according to the key, green means paths open to you. Once you've done something, you can't do that event again.

@skeletor

[kholah@pouet.chapril.org]

@skeletor
Thanks for posting amazing things, it always cheer me up, much datalove to you ️

[cthon1c@kolektiva.social]

@bhasic @skeletor and every point is the center

[redbrick01@mastodon.social]

@skeletor

Very cool illustration...simple and straight to the point.

[genericpixels@mastodon.art]

@derHinek @skeletor This was a good reminder for me today. I believe the original belongs to Tim Urban of the "Wait But Why" blog.

[leeloo@c.im]

@KittenKoder @skeletor
It doesn't say open to do again.

Look, if you think the word "open" is misleading, suggest a better word. The green line on the drawing shows exactly what it was intended to show, and not having it would ruin the meaning.

[jestbill@mastodon.world]

@skeletor Available paths keep getting shorter.