Artificial Afterlives
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Gamble of a Million Year Plan
Everybody gets a full century of very healthy living in a body that can still run marathons and pass for 30. Then they digitize and cross their virtual fingers that superior technology will be invented. The million year option is obviously pretty arbitrary but anything would be. We might see something similar with black hole based civilizations in a post stellar era like we looked at in our Civilizations of the End of Time series. In those we suggested that if nobody had figured out how to build a perpetual motion machine or reverse entropy in a quintillion years folks might set out for waiting to the black hole powering their civilization was nearly drained of energy to see if there was a universe beyond down there.
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