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Why avoid eternal recurrence? If you find a lossless substrate, program a rich hedonic consciousness narrative into it, then loop. It doesn't have to be daft like "one orgasm"; if you have enough storage capacity, program epic millennia of diverse bliss, then loop those.

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As long as we're speculating about a trillion years into the future and the entropic iron grip of the Second Law, I have to express one doubt based on our existence.

To put this consideration into the context of the Second Law, "everything" (in the broadest sense) is, by definition, a closed system. Yet, there exists order in our universe, as evidenced by our own existence. Yet, the Second Law appears to forbid going from nothingness in a closed system to order.

So, one of these must be true:(1) I'm unreasonably assuming that nothingness is the original state of everything.(2) My interpretation of the Second Law is flawed; order from nothingness is possible.(3) The Second Law isn't universally true; there are secrets to entropy we have yet to unlock.

If #3 is the case, there is reason to doubt a conclusion of inevitable, extinction-causing scarcity on a galactic scale.

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