The Principle of Optimism

Vane: In the conversation where you talked about heat death, I may have been misreading you, but it sounded like if it was true, it would really bum you out. If we are doomed to the heat death, if knowledge creation is finite, it's not simply that our knowledge creation comes to an end. It's actually that everything we gain will be slowly and painfully lost. So in this kind of cosmology, there is no positive experience that is not met with a negative that is not also increasing the amount of suffering. And now here I'm making an extrapolation that you could argue with, right?