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Grand Futures: What are we hoping for? What do we do if we get it? | Anders Sandberg | EAGxOxford 22

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Computation Is Like Air When You Sing

Using this method, you can actually move stars and galaxies. We could literally give the Milky Way 50 kilometers per second if we wanted to dodge Van Droma the galaxy in a few billion years. It turns out that you can rearrange the universe on very large scales, but not arbitrarily large ones. But it seems that we can reorganize stuff on a slightly small scale. If that corresponds to different civilizations showing up and rearranging the matter of the universe, if I so want in some meaningful form. This gets into that question, how insignificant are we really? And I think life represents a face transition of matter.

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