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turchin comments on Does immortality imply eternal existence in linear time? - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: turchin 17 April 2016 11:17PM

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Comment author: turchin 18 April 2016 01:22:38AM 1 point [-]

I think you may refer to Tippler Omega point. Also John Smart had similar ideas, as I remember, when he said that civilization would evolve to smaller and smaller entities, running on higher and higher speed. In result technological singularity will be also physical singularity.

Now we can't say if time is infinitely divisible. Plank time may be the limit.