<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><br></div><div>My own long-term survival paper will be posted when it is presentable; still have to work out some astrophysics and logic. It is titled "That is not dead which can eternal lie" and gives a scientific basis for believing in something like Lovecraft's Great Old Ones. They are waiting for the background radiation to be right. </div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>### I would be mildly skeptical of this. Assuming that the Old Ones may want to maximize their access to negentropy in the extremely distant future, they would have to manifest themselves during the intervening eons in order to prevent the initiation of processes which dramatically increase entropy, i.e. exponentially multiplying later-generation sentients, like us. We didn't just crawl out the primordial ooze yesterday - there were billions of years of observable evolution when a competent galactic gardener could have nipped this weed in the bud, instead of having to deal with an infestation that could span the whole galaxy in less than a million years from now.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Since we are still around, the Old Ones seem to have dropped the ball massively ... unless of course, we are one starflight away from waking up the Reapers. Time will tell.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div>
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