<div dir="ltr">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 </div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 01/08/2025 16:13, Will Steinberg wrote:<br>
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> Yes, I don’t know how people ignore the two fundamental aspects of <br>
> reality: entropy (finiteness and the tendency of everything to decay) <br>
> and extropy (the tendency to resist decay by filling spaces and <br>
> causing things around it to decay). It’s just thermodynamic reality. <br>
> Things break, and life relentlessly hoards what is whole. You can’t <br>
> write it out of existence in a computer that operates on this <br>
> thermodynamic reality<br>
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Even if we are forever confined to our solar system, I think these are <br>
questions that can safely be relegated to a future time, when either <br>
beings much more capable than we are can actually solve them (rather <br>
than ponder, pontificate and argue about them, which is all we can do), <br>
or they won't be relevant at all (because we have failed to survive).<br>
<br>
In the meantime, I reckon a better use of our time would be figuring out <br>
how to survive, and how to bring these more capable beings into existence.<br>
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-- <br>
Ben<br>
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