From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 12:15:03 MST
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Anders Sandberg wrote:
> >
> > As far as I remember, the expansion will move fast enough to make it
> > impossible to outrun it unless you have a superluminal ship. See
> > "Cosmological Constant and the Final Anthropic Hypothesis" by Milan M.
> > Cirkovic and Nick Bostrom: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9906042
> > which is *very* gloomy.
>
> 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.
Ah, but its the clock speed that matters. Upgrading to successively
faster pocket universe after pocket universe (each nested within the
previous) would allow umpteen magnitudes more quantitative run time,
ergo more 'life'. What does it matter if the U-prime universe is going
to phase out in 100 billion years when one second there is equal to 10^n
seconds in Pocket Universe Level n?
Recall Egan's 'Diaspora' - the perpetual voyage to ever higher
universes, all with similar constraints cosmologically, but each higher
level universe runs faster.
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