[ExI] Uploading to black holes: The transcension hypothesis

[Giulio Prisco]

On 2020. Oct 29., Thu at 14:28, BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 10:01, Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> > Uploading to black holes: The transcension hypothesis
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> > According to John Smart, advanced civilizations eventually migrate to
> > black holes...
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> https://turingchurch.net/uploading-to-black-holes-the-transcension-hypothesis-af54220ffb84
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> Some thoughts........
> Quote:
> According to the transcension hypothesis, advanced civilizations in
> the universe learn to control space, time, energy, and matter (STEM)
> at increasingly small scales and high densities. Advanced
> civilizations migrate to these “inner spaces” and eventually to black
> holes, which are ultimate high density, high performance substrates
> for intelligent life.
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> I agree with this statement up to 'migrating to inner spaces'.  The last
> part about eventually migrating to black holes, I would move to the far
> distant future, if ever.
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> Reasoning - Advanced civilisations that have mastered STEM will be
> living at small scale and at a much faster processing speed. For them,
> the universe will appear to have frozen in time. The available energy
> sources in normal space are more easily utilised. The time to migrate
> to black holes would be after the stars go extinct as black holes have
> a much longer lifespan than stars.  But by the time that far future
> arrives, who knows what our advanced civilisation might be capable of?


This is what I think, but I don’t know if John would agree. I asked him for
comments.


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