A thought-puzzle I find amusing: in a world with infinite resources (e.g. an infinite cellular automaton, such as the one in a certain Greg Egan book), there exists a civilization-wide reproduction strategy such that (1) the population will grow only polynomially in time, and (2) every agent will have infinitely many children.
It’s actually rather simple, and doesn’t require slowdowns of subjective time. I thought I’d leave it to you as a quick exercise...
A thought-puzzle I find amusing: in a world with infinite resources (e.g. an infinite cellular automaton, such as the one in a certain Greg Egan book), there exists a civilization-wide reproduction strategy such that (1) the population will grow only polynomially in time, and (2) every agent will have infinitely many children.
It’s actually rather simple, and doesn’t require slowdowns of subjective time. I thought I’d leave it to you as a quick exercise...