asciilifeform: ( i suppose could empty it of chix, if there were 9000 mircea_popescu's , but there's exactly 1, at least in my light cone )

asciilifeform: i always assumed that those are eternal, but simply not in my light cone

asciilifeform: ( it is conceivable that such a thing exists but wholly outside of asciilifeform's light cone, note. )

asciilifeform: to where his light cone even extended.

asciilifeform: this also would give mircea_popescu the thing he asked for, which was a litmus that'd let him reject a cycle-creating patch immediately from his light cone, before it can get into his vtron and cause headache. and that is, 'no patch may have a descendant that is also an antecedent of itself or of an earlier-blocktimed patch.'

asciilifeform: there is not a cure for this, other than to stay 'in the light cone'

asciilifeform: 'find my light cone' is an inevitable knob of gossipd.

asciilifeform: $s light cone

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'trust cone' is subset of your light cone.

asciilifeform: light cone is what you get when you find the intersection of one particular observer's notion of 'i can see WHOLE UNIVERSE!1111' with... reality.

asciilifeform: 'light cone' is simply ALL vpatches, by ANYONE, that you know about.

asciilifeform: though it is moar correct to think of one's 'patch light cone'

asciilifeform: for completeness, i will also mention the possibility that we (or what al can see of us in his light-cone) didn't pass his bozo filter.