The butterfly effect, originally, was about lack of perfect
information leading to otherwise useful predictive algorithms having fatal
errors. Like most scientific concepts, the general public has a totally
different take, thanks to popular culture. The average person may well tell you
it’s about how stepping on a butterfly in the past will mean a world war goes
the other way.
But sometimes, the two overlap. For instance, I failed to
take into account that my stepping on a butterfly in the past was in fact built
into the timeline, and thus going back to stop myself was the problem.
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