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If humanity conquered the universe by chance - zhangjinyuan - Jul 23, 2020
If humanity conquered the universe by chance
The universe will not heat up, collapse, or rip apart, everything is under the control of human technology
The universe and the world will eternal
At this time humans have 4 kinds of selection buttons
1. Keep it eternal and live in technology [Clean up boring information in your brain regularly]
2. Just like now, transform into particles and die, sleep forever
3. Start the reincarnation button and become a singularity again. Human beings start to study from 0 and start working hard
4. Find a way to study and destroy the universe, without leaving a point of energy, completely ending, and never existed
Which one would you choose
RE: If humanity conquered the universe by chance - Secular Sanity - Jul 23, 2020
(Jul 23, 2020 07:39 AM)zhangjinyuan Wrote: If humanity conquered the universe by chance
The universe will not heat up, collapse, or rip apart, everything is under the control of human technology
The universe and the world will eternal
At this time humans have 4 kinds of selection buttons
1. Keep it eternal and live in technology [Clean up boring information in your brain regularly]
2. Just like now, transform into particles and die, sleep forever
3. Start the reincarnation button and become a singularity again. Human beings start to study from 0 and start working hard
4. Find a way to study and destroy the universe, without leaving a point of energy, completely ending, and never existed
Which one would you choose
2. Just like now, transform into particles and die, sleep forever
I like it how it is.
RE: If humanity conquered the universe by chance - C C - Jul 23, 2020
(Jul 23, 2020 07:39 AM)zhangjinyuan Wrote: If humanity conquered the universe by chance
The universe will not heat up, collapse, or rip apart, everything is under the control of human technology
The universe and the world will eternal
At this time humans have 4 kinds of selection buttons [...] Which one would you choose
My choice is accordingly restricted by both that speculative circumstance itself and what I feel it would take to get there in terms of progress casualties along the way.
Quote:1. Keep it eternal and live in technology [Clean up boring information in your brain regularly]
I would "sort of" go with this, since I don't believe a Type-III (Kardashev scale) or so-called "omnipotent" post-Type-III civilization would consist of ancestral humans and their specific psychology and motivations being role-players and decision-makers anymore. (With even cyborgs and humanoid forms being relics of a distant past.) At best, we might still linger as digital organisms in "inner space" (transcension hypothesis). But the deadly environments of "outer space" would be inherited by post-biological or technology-based species. With archailects (god-like artilects) possibly managing things.
A servile class of robot drudges (lacking phenomenal consciousness) and exponentially migrating von Neumann machines would keep expanding and maintaining slash protecting the networks which the simulated worlds resided in. We "original humans" would probably be a minor population group in such, since the whole mythological, fantasy, and science fiction gamut of beings would be inhabiting Inner Space.
Quote:2. Just like now, transform into particles and die, sleep forever
Doubtless that would be one of the mulitple options (either voluntary or involuntary) still occurring in Inner Space. Or at least the appearance of such -- since, depending upon the frequency of storage crisis eras, one's pattern might be still retained somewhere after death. Just like the whole of one's life endures in the co-existing differences (changes) of spacetime (minus the involvement of computational apparatus and processes).
Quote:3. Start the reincarnation button and become a singularity again. Human beings start to study from 0 and start working hard
Yet another of the available possibilities/selections of Inner Space.
Quote:4. Find a way to study and destroy the universe, without leaving a point of energy, completely ending, and never existed
Back to the inheritors of Outer Space (and the reputed "real world"): It's difficult if not impossible to foresee what directions artificial life (both domestic and feral) and the singularity "deities" would go. Presumably, they would still be subsumed under the general momentum of old biology/evolution and not have some intentional goal of annihilating everything, unless that was needed for their own "next-step" cosmological transcendence.
RE: If humanity conquered the universe by chance - Zinjanthropos - Jul 24, 2020
(Jul 23, 2020 07:39 AM)zhangjinyuan Wrote: If humanity conquered the universe by chance
The universe will not heat up, collapse, or rip apart, everything is under the control of human technology
The universe and the world will eternal
At this time humans have 4 kinds of selection buttons
1. Keep it eternal and live in technology [Clean up boring information in your brain regularly]
2. Just like now, transform into particles and die, sleep forever
3. Start the reincarnation button and become a singularity again. Human beings start to study from 0 and start working hard
4. Find a way to study and destroy the universe, without leaving a point of energy, completely ending, and never existed
Which one would you choose
#4....Find it puzzling that humans control the universe and yet don’t know how to destroy it.