[ExI] Expansion of the Universe

[Keith Henson]

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:00 AM,  Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
>
> On 2012-12-31 17:21, spike wrote:
>> It fills one with a sense of urgency to realize that one has only 20 billion
>> years to live, and that's a best case scenario.  It causes one to be so much
>> more aware of the passing of each geological age, to learn to take one eon
>> at a time, to live in the millennium, to seize the century, that sort of
>> thing.
>
> This is good advice for the new galactic year.

It may be better than you think.  Given uploading (expected), speedup
(seems hard to avoid), and that the speedup is on the order of a
million, then subjectively 20 billion years would stretch to 20 x
10^15 years, give or take a few orders of magnitude.

It is slightly unnerving to think that some of us reading this list
could experience 50 million subjective years before the end of this
calendar century.

Keith