The Omega Point (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Big Bounce Deity in Asmars' the Last Question
No matter how many times you double the intelligence of a critter, it is still a finite number. There is a special case though if the steps to each doubling take less time each progressive doubling like Zeno's Paradox. This one can often get you what I sometimes refer to as a retro-causal god that descends from mankind or mankind's artifice to become godlike at a later date and then goes back in time to create the universe. A big bounce version of this is seen in Isaac Asmars' classic short story, The Last Question.
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