[ExI] immortal

[Will Steinberg]

Naw I think a better use for our time would just be yankin each others'
chains and navel gazing.  Humans already carved out that niche after all

On Sat, Aug 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 01/08/2025 16:13, Will Steinberg wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I don’t know how people ignore the two fundamental aspects of
> > reality: entropy (finiteness and the tendency of everything to decay)
> > and extropy (the tendency to resist decay by filling spaces and
> > causing things around it to decay).  It’s just thermodynamic reality.
> > Things break, and life relentlessly hoards what is whole.  You can’t
> > write it out of existence in a computer that operates on this
> > thermodynamic reality
>
> Even if we are forever confined to our solar system, I think these are
> questions that can safely be relegated to a future time, when either
> beings much more capable than we are can actually solve them (rather
> than ponder, pontificate and argue about them, which is all we can do),
> or they won't be relevant at all (because we have failed to survive).
>
> In the meantime, I reckon a better use of our time would be figuring out
> how to survive, and how to bring these more capable beings into existence.
>
> --
> Ben
>
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