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> reduced humanity to the Stone Age, it wouldn't qualify as such in some longtermist thought, because 10^100 years is a very long term, more than enough for hum
by falcolas 3y ago
> reduced humanity to the Stone Age, it wouldn't qualify as such in some longtermist thought, because 10^100 years is a very long term, more than enough for humanity to rebound
Practically speaking, we wouldn't have that long. Until humanity escapes our solar system, it's on a much shorter 5 billion year clock.
Which is still a lot of time, but we need to live past our solar system before we can really start thinking in trillions of years.
- tptacek 3y agoRight, this is the idea that implicates the kookiness.
- imtringued 3y agoThe assumption is that we are going to capture hawking radiation from black holes and live in some kind of Dyson sphere after the heat death of the universe. I am not making this up.