🧵 End goal of scientific progress
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 16:13:53 UTC No. 16191243
What do you think the ultimate end goal of scientific and technological progress will be, /sci/? I think that it will be figuring out how to construct hedonium, an arrangement of matter that maximizes the conscious experience of pleasure per unit of mass, and then having self-replicating Von Neumann probes convert as much of the universe into hedonium as possible.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 16:59:48 UTC No. 16191292
>>16191243
Shieeet
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 17:09:15 UTC No. 16191299
>>16191277
Comic related would still be sub-optimal because it's only giving pleasure to already existing minds, rather than creating new minds specifically designed to experience pleasure. We wouldn't even have to put humans into experience machines, the dumb matter of 99.99999% of the universe could be converted to hedonium while the solar system is left intact for humans to have a civilization within, as a "hedge" in case there is some more existential meaning to existence beyond just pleasure maximization.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 17:19:58 UTC No. 16191311
>>16191243
Second law of infodynamics states that the change in information entropy tends to minimize.
With that being the case, the end goal of technology might be to encode some final message upon whatever substrate remains in the cosmos prior to the final erasure.
I like to think that perhaps some beneficent society might use the last of their energy to simulate all the phenomenon (conscious, social, biological, physical) unaccounted for in their archives. Perhaps by writing all of this data into some final ledger, technology will paint the cosmos with some picture telling a story of the order that briefly existed in our universe.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 17:24:39 UTC No. 16191313
>>16191243
Immortality and intergalactic travel. Next question
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 18:51:57 UTC No. 16191430
I think, for humanity, the end goal of the physical sciences is going beyond the physical reality, leaving it, and moving on to something else entirely. Your mileage may vary.
Anonymous at Sat, 25 May 2024 09:10:34 UTC No. 16192387
>>16191243
I imagine the sort of ultimate goal of civilization is to "fix" the Universe, essentially ending all suffering and problems in it, alternatively creation of its own Universe without any bullshit and with all the blackjack and hookers.
Anonymous at Sun, 26 May 2024 07:45:19 UTC No. 16193721
>>16191243
There is no end goal. Each new discovery creates more questions than answers