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.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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