Paid Has No Maybe
Paid has zero uncertainty, and may pay has plenty. The future is a ranked list from most likely to least likely, and the only thing that steepens it is a pattern, which is made of nothing but past tense. … readPaid Has No Maybe
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Sixteen Futures, One Past
Turn a dial from 100% uncertainty to 0% and watch the future become the past, one bit at a time. A playable thought from my new free book, How the Future Becomes the Past: A Mythology of Quantum Gravity. … readSixteen Futures, One Past
What Is Suspense
You were taught that suspense is what an undecided outcome does to you — that you are held because the world has not settled the question yet. The foundation I work from says the state does not notice whether the record is made: it runs at full strength on a match already played and on a film you have seen five times. Suspense is not a relation with an outcome. It is a denominator held wide while marks arrive, which is why it reports nothing about the world, why anyone who controls the rate of arrival can manufacture it, and why the relief at the end is not the world resolving. … readWhat Is Suspense
What Is Waiting
Waiting is not an interval, because nothing is on its way. It is a load carried in your own denominator — and the ordinary word covers two situations that require opposite responses. … readWhat Is Waiting