"It is likely to be the most important thing that has happened on this planet since the rise of homo sapiens" - Nick Bostrom on the dawn of superintelligencehttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/in-conversation-4-superbrains-and-simulated-worlds/id1123461944?i=1000416961943&mt=2 …
all of this stuff is sort of answered by "superintelligent race of aliens thousands of years more technologically advanced than us from a universe that may be operating under a slightly different physics"