Before life, there are only rocks and astronomical objects. Once new things can be created, prior world is relatively unimportant to understand in comparison, because it’s constrained to happenstance of what was there in the past, and there is no similar constraint on what can be created in the future.
Most interesting things are those that get intentionally created with the purpose of being interesting in mind. For any purpose, this or other, that doesn’t end up referencing humanity or the past, it’s possible to create more optimal things in view of that purpose than anything that already happens to exist, because things that happen to exist were never superintelligently optimized to fit that purpose. Humanity is like rocks and astronomical objects, relics that are not optimal in most respects.
Before life, there are only rocks and astronomical objects. Once new things can be created, prior world is relatively unimportant to understand in comparison, because it’s constrained to happenstance of what was there in the past, and there is no similar constraint on what can be created in the future.
Most interesting things are those that get intentionally created with the purpose of being interesting in mind. For any purpose, this or other, that doesn’t end up referencing humanity or the past, it’s possible to create more optimal things in view of that purpose than anything that already happens to exist, because things that happen to exist were never superintelligently optimized to fit that purpose. Humanity is like rocks and astronomical objects, relics that are not optimal in most respects.