Let’s say we left one single very smart guy (not necessarily with the knowledge: they may be able to understand hard stuff when taught it, but not know it already) alone on a copy of the earth. That person is also immortal. Could that person, by themselves, gain back all knowledge, maybe also experimental, or even surpass that is already available to us right now, before the planet gets inevitably engulfed by a sun turning red giant?

  • The Snark Urge
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    611 months ago

    If you had unlimited time, you would not be motivated to use it efficiently.

    If I was immortal and without worldly concerns, I might spend eight years in the throes of a single good book.

    I might never decide I’m in the mood to learn CSS.

      • The Snark Urge
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        211 months ago

        While I know that infinity means infinity, I think that like fractals we tend to move about one point instead of trending away at random. I wouldn’t change radically over time, I would just become a more complex self-similar being.