I suspect there infinitely many copies of each of our minds spread throughout the Omniverse (or certainly more than a hundred).
These minds have identical experiences, but may live under different laws of physics without knowing it. A lucky minority must live in universes where vacuum decay is impossible, including almost all of our distant descendants.
But it is worrying and unpleasant that we seem to live so close to the beginning of time rather than an endless utopia—almost as if that won’t happen at all. The only solution may be that young universes are somehow constantly being generated within older universes.
Vacuum decay isn’t enough to get us to be here. Even if aliens appear lots, and all want vacuum decay, if we don’t, we can still expect millions of years before it hits. In a million years, a Dyson sphere can hold a huge number of humans. (Even more with mind uploading). Ergo us being this early is still a surprise.
What you need to make our position fairly typical is either descendants who run lots of ancestor sims, or others who sim us. Or us being utterly doomed to destroy ourselves. The only serious candidate for something this doomy is UFAI.
I suspect there infinitely many copies of each of our minds spread throughout the Omniverse (or certainly more than a hundred).
These minds have identical experiences, but may live under different laws of physics without knowing it. A lucky minority must live in universes where vacuum decay is impossible, including almost all of our distant descendants.
But it is worrying and unpleasant that we seem to live so close to the beginning of time rather than an endless utopia—almost as if that won’t happen at all. The only solution may be that young universes are somehow constantly being generated within older universes.
Vacuum decay isn’t enough to get us to be here. Even if aliens appear lots, and all want vacuum decay, if we don’t, we can still expect millions of years before it hits. In a million years, a Dyson sphere can hold a huge number of humans. (Even more with mind uploading). Ergo us being this early is still a surprise.
What you need to make our position fairly typical is either descendants who run lots of ancestor sims, or others who sim us. Or us being utterly doomed to destroy ourselves. The only serious candidate for something this doomy is UFAI.