[ExI] Uploading to black holes: The transcension hypothesis

[Giulio Prisco]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 4:16 PM Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2020. Oct 29., Thu at 14:28, BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>
> This is what I think, but I don’t know if John would agree. I asked him for comments.

John posted some interesting comments:
https://turingchurch.net/uploading-to-black-holes-the-transcension-hypothesis-af54220ffb84