I still think of that Vernor Vinge novel Across Realtime where people just disappear. Like a murder mystery it has already happened at the beginning of the book and people at various technology levels are one-way time traveling into the future trying to figure out what happened but… they never do.
It’s a good read.
I also think of this differential equation
dx/dt = x*x
Which like the usual exponential growth equation except x is squared so the rate of growth accelerates as the quantity increases, solutions look like
x = 1/t
namely it grows pretty slowly for a long time but it really goes bam all the way to infinity at a specific time.
Anyhow I don’t believe in that God at the end of time that Aella and Tielhard de Chardin believe in because I think intelligence itself is limited the way Godel, Turing and many others point to.
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I still think of that Vernor Vinge novel Across Realtime where people just disappear. Like a murder mystery it has already happened at the beginning of the book and people at various technology levels are one-way time traveling into the future trying to figure out what happened but… they never do.
It’s a good read.
I also think of this differential equation
Which like the usual exponential growth equation except x is squared so the rate of growth accelerates as the quantity increases, solutions look like namely it grows pretty slowly for a long time but it really goes bam all the way to infinity at a specific time.Anyhow I don’t believe in that God at the end of time that Aella and Tielhard de Chardin believe in because I think intelligence itself is limited the way Godel, Turing and many others point to.