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Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: 'If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal'
- fallingfrog 2y agoTheoretically perhaps, but despite what our internal self-perception would suggest, none of us reading this are actually important enough to resurrect later.
- qarl 2y agoWell, if you wait long enough, it'll happen by happenstance.
- pinkmuffinere 2y agoSomething something Roko’s basilisk? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
- ozten 2y agoBefore LLMs, one would think that about web pages. Now we have The Pile with everything that could be scrapped, regardless of importance or quality.
- koverstreet 2y agoThat goes back to Tipler. Tipler went further though, he argued that if the universe ends in a big crunch there's a way around the Landauer limit that allows for infinite computation in finite time - the universe would, in a sense, never have to end. But since then it looks like dark energy means never ending expansion. Doh.