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We’ve got agency to decide which. And maybe, trillions of years in the future, we discover a way to reverse even entropy.
by Robotbeat 5y ago
We’ve got agency to decide which. And maybe, trillions of years in the future, we discover a way to reverse even entropy.
- pixl97 5y agoBut why does having infinity suddenly give meaning? I like the following take on infinity https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html >P.S. Writing this post made me much less likely to pick “infinity” as my answer to this week’s dinner table question. Imagine living a Graham’s number amount of years.8 Even if hypothetically, conditions stayed the same in the universe, in the solar system, and on Earth forever, there is no way the human brain is built to withstand spans of time like that. I’m horrified thinking about it. I think it would be the gravest of grave errors to punch infinity into the calculator—and this is from someone who’s openly terrified of death. Weirdly, thinking about Graham’s number has actually made me feel a little bit calmer about death, because it’s a reminder that I don’t actually want to live forever—I do want to die at some point, because remaining conscious for eternity is even scarier. Yes, death comes way, way too quickly, but the thought “I do want to die at some point” is a very novel concept to me and actually makes me more relaxed than usual about our mortality.
- Robotbeat 5y agoIs there some possible world where there is meaning?