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KidKilobyte t1_iv3mfb4 wrote

Reply to comment by Kinexity in Ray Kurzweil hits the nail on the head with this short piece. What do you think about computronium / utilitronium and hedonium? by BinaryDigit_

I actually heard an in person lecture by Freeman Dyson on this very issue and the only reason we build up order on earth is because there is an outflow of energy from the Sun that goes through the Earth and then is re-radiated the space. With out an incoming source of energy that flows to a lower lower place of order there is no building of order. Our gains in order are because the Earth is not a closed system entropy wise. Our order here is offset by disordered elsewhere. Eventually the suns will burn out and disorder will only increase — the heat death of the Universe.

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Kinexity t1_iv3ytgf wrote

That is true that we need the energy from the sun for that order to appear. Idk if it's called like this in English but I know it as "energy stream" (after translation) from thermodynamics lecture I attended. We are limited by the amount of energy there is but from our perspective the energy is "endless" so it doesn't make sense to bother yourself with heat death of the Universe.

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