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Tech moves so fast, I can’t think of a termination event that couldn’t be solved with 1M years of exponential growth. Even with the Big Freeze or Big Crunch of
by awb 5y ago
Tech moves so fast, I can’t think of a termination event that couldn’t be solved with 1M years of exponential growth.
Even with the Big Freeze or Big Crunch of the universe, there’s at least some hope that some currently unknown science, energy source, etc. might be accessible to us in 1M years that could delay or reduce the severity of the event.
But, let’s say there’s a an event that will somehow destroy our entire solar system in 500 years, that would certainly divide people into two camps: one hell bent on escaping the solar system at all costs and another determined to enjoy every last moment before extinction.
- stormdennis 5y ago500 years is too long, 100 more like. Live but don't have kids
- lordnacho 5y agoOn the other hand, 1M years is so far away, everything can be put off to be dealt with later. There's at least one or two issues that we maybe should think about addressing before it's too late.
- bl0rg 5y agoTech moves so fast now. While I don't believe we'll be leveling off anytime soon, it's worth considering the possibility of it.
- city41 5y agoThere's also the pessimistic view that we will actually lose progress and regress over time. Jonathan Blow has an interesting talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
- effingwewt 5y agoIn the micro sense we see this all day every day. Restaurants start good but aim for max profit and become garbage. Apps/websites start great then keep adding cruft while removing features. Capitalism. Housing. All we do is advance to regress and repeat ourselves over and over.
- kwere 5y agoits incentives and check and balances nothing more
- time0ut 5y agoTermination event: this simulation will yield the desired answer after another 1 million years of simulated time and the plug will be pulled.
- 1270018080 5y agoThe total arrogance of people in technology lol. We're still just sentient specs of dust abiding by the laws of the universe on a spec of dust planet. Writing CRUD apps, flying to Mars, or driving an electric car, isn't going to save the universe.
- awb 5y agoYet it would have been impossible for many folks to even imagine such things 1,000 years ago.
- SamBam 5y agoSure, but a "universe-ending event" on the scale of the big crunch is a whole universe-worth of orders of magnitude different.
- cyberlurker 5y agoWell, we know which camp you are in.
- Aperocky 5y agoThat's a bit extreme, but we have a billion years before this planet becomes a slightly bigger Venus, that should be enough time to figure out something.
- morpheos137 5y agoIt is highly unlikely the human species as we know it will last a million more years. Why should we worry about what might happen in the far future?