• erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    with only a finite initial store of energy, only a finite number of thoughts can ever be processed. This “thermal death” of the universe prevents the infinite hibernation and computation trick from working, thus rendering Dyson’s eternal intelligence scenario impossible in a universe with a positive cosmological constant.

    My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

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      22 hours ago

      Eternity would get boring, a few trillion years would give you plenty of time to not miss out on anything life has to offer

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        19 hours ago

        How would you know ? Maybe life really only gets interesting after trillions of years, and nobody has experienced truly great life yet, who’s to say…