Entropy, Terminal States, BTC

The 2nd law deteriorates us all. The universe tends towards greater disorder and randomness over time. Slowly, relative to mammal time, we are all marching toward full dissolution. Asimov's 'last question' predicts this march to be unsolvable. Not just unsolvable for humans and biology but unsolvable universally. It's pretty clear that he's right.

So we can't reverse entropy, but we can delay it. Build out of stone instead of wood, write it down instead of oration, burn fossil fuels instead of coal or plants. Of course, this delays entropy locally but actually accelerates it globally. Adiabatic systems only exist in problems sets, they're not real. So maybe delaying isn't a good strategy either?

Accelerate.

That's the only thing to do, there is no other option. Accelerate human progress, accelerate biology, accelerate any and all complexity. Our best tool for acceleration has always been technology, and the spear head of that progress is information processing. From counting sheep and rudimentary arithmetic to advanced physics, better information processing always accelerates.

I'm borrowing a lot of these ideas from Max Tegmark, Marc Andreesen, and Michael Saylor. Tegmark first seeded the idea in my brain that biology and complexity is the universe's way of cultivating greater entropy. Marc Andreesen cemented the idea that technology is a moral and universal good. And Saylor connected acceleration with a tangible goal - BTC. With their philosophies I have arrived at the conclusion that acceleration is not only ethical, beneficial, and organic, it is strictly inevitable. And further, a responsibility of any creatures of this universe. Read 'Life3.0', 'The Techno-Optimist Manifesto' or listen to Saylor's lectures on energy and power.

So what's the best way to accelerate? We know it has something to do with information processing or computing. And in the short term, next thousand years, those tools will be invaluable for accelerating humans. But how about long term? How do these ideas relate to the terminal states of the universe. The answer is limitless problems - computing digits of Pi, spreading humanity to the edges of the universe, developing new information. If we find those pursuits meaningful, then they will satisfy us until the very heat death of the universe. But I suspect they're insufficient.

Our ultimate terminal goal as creatures of this universe will be creating new information on our universal, permissionless, limitless computer. It will be Bitcoin.