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The individual virtual realities grow very slowly, like the harmonic sequence, while the overall civilization grows like an expanding sphere.

I personally want to believe that the universe has the structure of the surreal numbers.

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Maximally efficient maximally growing physical economy can be represented as a surface of a sphere that expands at the speed of light in space It consumes all matter and energy with maximum efficiency. Inside the expanding sphere there is only maximum entropy (infrared radiation) that can't be used for anything.

The size of the physical economy is relative to the surface of the expanding sphere. The growth of the surface as a function of the radius of the sphere is: 8πr.

Assuming that trivial immaterial growth does not provide significant value and competitive and intellectually greedy culture strives towards maximum complexity and information processing capability, the limits of immaterial growth are related to the limits of computation.

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