• swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    8 months ago

    10^27 future lives

    Ok here’s my Rat fermi-time traveller party paradox, in short, the Rat FTTP paradox.

    1. According to Rat doctrine, many worlds is true and science is amazing and will solve all problems eventually.
    2. Lack of time travel is a problem, meaning in some world, eventually there will be time travel, by 1.
    3. Lack of 10^27 people is a problem*, so we will also have that, also by 1.

    The paradox: If time travel is so easy and there will be so many future lives, where are all the future rats?

    No seriously, where are they? This FTTP orgy was supposed to start 24 hours ago.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      8 months ago

      I think even the Rationalists realize that science will solve all solvable problems, and time travel is not a solvable problem. That is why they would just simulate it all and consider it the same as the OG thing. “I made a non-interactive time travel machine that allows you to go back in time and look how WW2 went. You should see this! Saving Private Ryan starts playing.”

      I cut out the whole tech step and I’m simulating all the orgies I’m having in my mind right now!

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      I was in an FTTP orgy once. It was kinda disappointing. I was the only one who even brought an ONT.