timtyler comments on Exterminating life is rational - Less Wrong

17 Post author: PhilGoetz 06 August 2009 04:17PM

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Comment author: timtyler 06 August 2009 08:33:55PM 0 points [-]

The observation bears on this statement:

"More important is that our compression of subjective time can be exponential, while our ability to escape from ever-broader swaths of destruction is limited by lightspeed."

Eventually, compression in subjective time stops, while expansion continues.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 06 August 2009 09:13:42PM 0 points [-]

Yes, that's right. If you can survive long enough to get to that point.