Equation 44 · How Fast Can a Horizon Learn Which Path You Took?
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Symbol T_rm receipt
m receipt is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Symbol delta
delta is an argument of the function-like quantity on the left; its role is set by that function’s stated inputs.
Symbol I_rm irr
m irr is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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Finally, the proposed horizon receipt time is . These are proposed definitions, not results from the 2025 optimization paper. They deliberately make admissible control part of the quantity. If grants arbitrary global unitaries on the horizon, the record can become fictitiously erasable. If it permits only “do nothing,” receipt time collapses into an ordinary decay threshold. A physically useful answer must live between those caricatures.
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