How to Escape a Time Loop
A cyclical flowchart for escaping a time loop that is itself a loop.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2020-03-13-how-to-escape-a-time-loop/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Title] "How to Escape a Time Loop" [Cycle diagram] RECOGNIZE that you're in a time loop → DEVISE a plan to escape → EVALUATE that plan, realizing it has probably failed countless times before, which is why you're in this time loop to begin with → PANIC at the last moment and make a decision that feels spontaneous but is in fact utterly predictable, because you have made it infinite times before and will make it infinite times again → (back to RECOGNIZE)