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I am not convinced the universe actually is that well tuned for intelligent life. There are quite a few problems I experience on a daily basis. Speed of ligh
by opwieurposiu 5y ago
I am not convinced the universe actually is that well tuned for intelligent life. There are quite a few problems I experience on a daily basis.
Speed of light is too slow, making communication difficult.
Reactionless thrusters seem to be impossible, making travel slow and noisy.
Over unity power generation impossible, making power expensive.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoOver unity power generation could result in some planet-destroying runaway accidents. Maybe we're better off without that one.
- Tenoke 5y agoI guess the comment is in jest but the argument is that it's finetunned for life to be possible not comfortable.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoBy definition, within Earth's evolutionary history, we are about the dumbest possible animals to achieve sapience. Perhaps similarly, our universe is one of the dumbest possible configurations to support our kind of life?
- baking 5y agoThe universe is obviously not tuned for space faring intelligent life. What the Anthropic Principle or Self-Sampling Assumption actually says is the universe is tuned to include our form of intelligent life, maybe others too, but not necessarily all forms of intelligent life. I haven't read the book, but basically we could not observe a universe that was not tuned for us, so it should not surprise us to see that it is.