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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Formy Paradox and the Dison Dilemma

If you can constantly ecycle your energy supply without entropy in the way, then every house just has a magic bike wheel in the basement with a generator attached. This is essentially an eternal set up, immune to the slow decay of the universe if it conserves energy. But this is where those implications can radically shift our view of the universe. If you can travel from any place or time in the universe to another, it begins getting truly absurd to assume no one has landed here on earth. I am, rather notoriously, of the opinion that intelligent life is ultra vel, so rare, most galaxies and maybe even most super clusters won't have both one yet.

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