Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Rationality Quotes Thread June 2015 - Less Wrong
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So you want to live forever? You might - even in a finite universe:
-- From Paul Halpers summary Learning to chill of Dyson Freemans Time without End.
Meh. At least it's better than the alternative, but I still don't like this.
'Almost' infinite is not even close to infinite.
The key point is that for you it wouldn't end. It's like zenos paradox.
A finite number of thoughts implies an end to subjective experience. Zeno's paradox works because distances in the thought experiment can be infinitely subdivided.
Just do the hard scientific work of figuring out why there's any specific amount of stuff in the universe instead of no stuff, countably infinite stuff, or uncountably infinite stuff, and then find a way to make more stuff (or a proof-by-contradiction that no more stuff can be made).