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This reminds me of a speculative fiction story by Ted Chiang called "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" which imagines an expendable device that gives users the ability to contact alternate versions of themselves in other branches, and explores the moral and psychological consequences of learning about those outcomes: https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freed...


There's a pretty good 4-season tv show about that concept called Being Erica. It mostly aired in Canada.


The title is a Kierkegaard quote :)


sounds like Stein's;Gate




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