Theoretical physics could produce a recipe for ruin if it turns out that there’s a way to crash the universe through something like a buffer overflow. I’ve seen enough arbitrary code execution glitches to intuitively understand that there’s nothing in principle that says we can’t find a way to bug out some underlying level of abstraction in our physics and break everything. Interestingly enough a bug of this type would complicate interstellar expansion because it would mean that the potential value drift as you exit communication range with other parts of your civilization could lead to a series of events that destroy everything for everyone. Knowledge of such a bug could therefore be one explanation for the Fermi Paradox.
On the 4D Chess takes section I think if you combine that idea with this idea of an ever evolving cosmology where we have selection for the proliferation of intelligent life then it does make sense that we would also have some unintentional bugs come up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OCY9ppY34Q&lc=UgxFQvrJXcgA6U1Xvf54AaABAg
(The TL;DR of the video is that our cosmos could quite nicely be explained through evolution through replicators that are black holes basically. It’s quite cool and from this year’s ILIAD.)
Also, what an amazing post. You’ve expressed something that I’ve wanted to express for a while on a level of depth that I wouldn’t have been able to do and I got literal chills when reading the last part. Well done.
On the 4D Chess takes section I think if you combine that idea with this idea of an ever evolving cosmology where we have selection for the proliferation of intelligent life then it does make sense that we would also have some unintentional bugs come up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OCY9ppY34Q&lc=UgxFQvrJXcgA6U1Xvf54AaABAg
(The TL;DR of the video is that our cosmos could quite nicely be explained through evolution through replicators that are black holes basically. It’s quite cool and from this year’s ILIAD.)
Also, what an amazing post. You’ve expressed something that I’ve wanted to express for a while on a level of depth that I wouldn’t have been able to do and I got literal chills when reading the last part. Well done.