Undo · Do this to my work · it guesses
Element 75
The same ask again, for another answer. Both are kept.
regenerate · reroll · branch
First known
From a history
2019AI Dungeon 2's '[Regen]', beside undo, redo and modify, in its browser release.
See also: ChatGPT's regenerate with '2/2' siblings, c.2022 (date unverified).
Browser release 5 Dec 2019. Vim 7.0's undo branches (2006) are an undo tree, a P4 act.
Dated by a reputable history or a participant's own account. The source.
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Specimen № 75 — operate freely
Fork the reply. Live both timelines. Keep one.
Fig. 75 — Branch
000 readings · idle
Anatomy of Branch
- 01Ask
- You
- Sends a message.
- It
- Replies.
- 02Fork
- You
- Branches at any reply.
- It
- Starts a second timeline from that point.
- 03Live both
- You
- Continues each one.
- It
- Keeps them side by side.
- 04Keep
- You
- Picks one.
- It
- Makes it the main line.
Phases light as the specimen above registers them. The dark ones are the ones it can't sense.
Lineage
Chat interfaces gained branches in the early 2020s, once people could edit an earlier message and see a different answer. The idea comes from version control, and from hypertext's insistence that a text can go more than one way.
Under delegation
Survives
- Survives
- Mutates
- Dissolves
Branching is native to the agent era: ask differently and keep both answers. Most chat interfaces still hide it behind small arrows. A conversation that is visibly a tree lets people explore without the fear of losing what worked.
Down the Undo column
Read down and Undo gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Regenerate takes.
- regenerate
- reroll
- branch
From the 2021 table
This was a tile of its own. On this table it is a form of Regenerate, and its old address lands here.
- BranchIsotopeThe same act in another body.Operate ↑