PhilGoetz comments on Other Existential Risks - Less Wrong
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I don't need a specific paradise in mind. Paradise means bad things don't happen, which means the entire society is highly optimized. Being highly-optimized requires being static. This is a general property of search/optimization algorithms.
I'm not sure why I should believe this. Given that one of the properties that we're presumably optimizing over is 'not being static'.