On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:05:57PM -0500, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> Cosmological constant... lightspeed limit... does anyone get the feeling
> that this universe is in some way designed to be *inhospitable* to
> sufficiently advanced intelligent life? If the reproduction of universes
> within a larger multiverse depends on intelligent life getting fed up and
> swallowing into baby universes, there'd be a selection pressure for such
> characteristics. The problem is that "reproduction" in this way requires
> that the manner of reproduction is such as to preserve physical laws and
> the settings of the basic constants, which makes it unclear why we'd
> swallow into a baby universe that was no better than this one.
What if there is a loophole of some kind, which is likely found by the
supercivs only after a few (or many) generations of baby-universe
migrations? It could be that there is a way out, but it requires some
unlikely random preconditions, or that it is very computationally expensive
to find.
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