Optimism is based on assumption that things will work out. Ultimately, things won't work out.
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Of course, it's possible to be optimistic about things in the short term. Which is why I said 'ultimately'
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We distract ourselves from death by being optimistic about the short term
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @SlagOffTwits
Again, I disagree. My 'optimism' is simply a position on the inevitable (given the right epistemic _culture_) growth of knowledge.
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Which will continue, long after I die.
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Replying to @CarnunMP @SlagOffTwits
Thing is, knowledge too will most likely die...
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Unless we can form a singularity and escape the laws of physics.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @SlagOffTwits
Of course, but presumably that's but a _problem to be solved_ like any other, and we have a while! What's more, things aren't so simple...
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Knowledge is, in fact, precisely the kind of thing which tends* to persist once instantiated. It 'causes' its own replication/preservation.
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*Barring exceptional catastrophe, e.g. asteroid impact, or indeed the end of the universe.
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I think the best hope is quantum computing. According to Deutsch, it can spread knowledge across universes -- insurance against heat-death
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