http://programmer.ie/tags/history-dependence/ Recent content in History Dependence on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:30:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/12-can-the-past-redirect-the-future/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:30:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/12-can-the-past-redirect-the-future/ <p>The last two chapters have narrowed the question to one local event.</p> <p>Chapter 10 forced a single attachment and found an immediate causal effect whose magnitude was consistent with the local rule&rsquo;s mechanical prediction, followed by a small transient consequence that converged.</p> <p>Chapter 11 showed that finite computation can route causal opportunity outside the local causal cone, change which pathways express the perturbation, and gate whether an affected opportunity is evaluated at all — while resolving no meaningful change in mean twelve-step consequence at the declared ±0.15 scale.</p>