The Principle of Optimism

Bruce Schneier: I think a worse thing that could happen is that we actually discover an evil law of physics, which says something like all conscious life eventually has to go out. If there are bound on the number of computational steps that a computer can execute during the lifetime of a universe, if there is, then physics will also impose a bound on the amount of knowledge that can be created. This is in beginning of infinity. Bad philosophy will inevitably come again into a sentence for it will be true. The principle of optimism would be wrong. It's just radical pessimism, nihilism and acceptance. So I guess I'm curious to kind of do this worst case analysis with the panel and