There’s a way of viewing the world as a series of ”forces”, each trying to control the future. Eukaryotic life is one. Black holes are another. We build many things, humans, from chairs to planes to AIs. Of those three, turning on the AI feels the most like “a new force has entered the game”.
All these forces are fighting over the future, and while it’s odd to think of a black hole as an agent, sometimes when I look at it it does feel natural to think of physics as another optimisation force that’s playing the game with us.
On the topic of the black hole...
There’s a way of viewing the world as a series of ”forces”, each trying to control the future. Eukaryotic life is one. Black holes are another. We build many things, humans, from chairs to planes to AIs. Of those three, turning on the AI feels the most like “a new force has entered the game”.
All these forces are fighting over the future, and while it’s odd to think of a black hole as an agent, sometimes when I look at it it does feel natural to think of physics as another optimisation force that’s playing the game with us.