Final message: as currently described, the string landscape plus inflation is not generally thought of as allowing infinite computation or eternal life. But that whole cosmological conception may be faulty.
However, from what you’ve said, it seems that it is not ruled out even if ST is correct, as we don’t know what ST at high energy scales actually does, right?
There are ideas about what happens in those extreme conditions. But frankly I think your chances are better at very low energies. The difficult part about aspiring to live forever is that somehow you need the probability of an accident to drop off sharply and permanently, or else the asymptotic odds of survival are zero. Late-time de Sitter space should be a lot more peaceful than a collapsing cosmological fireball.
The difficult part about aspiring to live forever is that somehow you need the probability of an accident to drop off sharply and permanently
Not necessarily—you can use error-correcting algorithms and multiply redundant hardware to run your computer in spite of an error rate, as long as it is not too high.
However, from what you’ve said, it seems that it is not ruled out even if ST is correct, as we don’t know what ST at high energy scales actually does, right?
There are ideas about what happens in those extreme conditions. But frankly I think your chances are better at very low energies. The difficult part about aspiring to live forever is that somehow you need the probability of an accident to drop off sharply and permanently, or else the asymptotic odds of survival are zero. Late-time de Sitter space should be a lot more peaceful than a collapsing cosmological fireball.
Not necessarily—you can use error-correcting algorithms and multiply redundant hardware to run your computer in spite of an error rate, as long as it is not too high.