fieryflamingfire t1_jchbohm wrote on March 16, 2023 at 8:48 PM

Reply to comment by Rogermcfarley in Discussion: the goal of human existence should be avoiding the heat death of the universe by Mickeymousse1

I was thinking that'd be a symptom of some other change, not the point

Rogermcfarley t1_jchc96g wrote on March 16, 2023 at 8:52 PM

That would be applicable to the whole of humanity?

fieryflamingfire t1_jckc1jy wrote on March 17, 2023 at 1:42 PM

Sure. Our perceptions and mental states are probably going to be subject to tons of technological "tuning". Who knows what that's going to look like

This is all spitballing / conjecture obviously

Rogermcfarley t1_jckcz8p wrote on March 17, 2023 at 1:50 PM

1.7x10 to the power of 106 is an unimaginably vast amount of time. Currently we live on a rock in space so we'd need faster than light travel to get anywhere meaningful which of course would alter time relative to the initial position. I can't predict what will be possible. However as a species we have existed for a negligible amount of time. I honestly can't imagine humanity existing even a million years from now. Anyway It's not something any of us living today will find out. It's possible Humans will wipe themselves out before then, hypothetically speaking we might create ASI which could decide to wipe us out or we may interface with machines and eventually lose our biological state.

fieryflamingfire t1_jcksrhz wrote on March 17, 2023 at 3:37 PM

That's one possibility. Another possibility is: we don't wipe ourselves out, we build ASI and sustain full control over it, and we lose our biological state on purpose rather than on accident.

And even if this is something none of us will ever experience, thinking about it still seems like a fun / useful exercise