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This also reaffirms my (wishful) thinking that if there’s a way to do FTL communication it’ll be something with an absurdly tiny factor like 2^-182 with a slight asymmetry in a probability somewhere.
Then you’re not violating FTL, just gaining a very slight chance that you might know something FTL – probably.
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saagarjha • today at 12:41 AM
If there was a way to do FTL communications you’d expect that Jane Street would have found it already
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Given that c is the speed of causality itself, FTL communications would effectively be like predicting the future.
From that angle, beating light speed by some absurdly tiny factor would probably correspond to a means of predicting the future at some almost absurdly tiny factor better than random guessing.
Edit: Actually...it doesn't make sense to call this FTL communication, it's just predicting the future state of a system given some previous state. FTL comms would have to be predicting the future state of a system without information about the previous state.
Practically speaking predictive modeling would be a means of compensating for light speed comms, kind of like branch prediction in processors or speculative decoding in LLMs, but that wouldn't actually be FTL comms.