Let’s say we left one single very smart guy (not necessarily with the knowledge: they may be able to understand hard stuff when taught it, but not know it already) alone on a copy of the earth. That person is also immortal. Could that person, by themselves, gain back all knowledge, maybe also experimental, or even surpass that is already available to us right now, before the planet gets inevitably engulfed by a sun turning red giant?

    • monotrox@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      “infinity … guarantees all possibilities” no, no it does not and that is such a common misunderstanding of infinities its kind of annoying.

      I.e. The list of all even numbers is infinite and still doesnt include a single odd number. Real numbers are densely infinite and still dont include the imaginary unit or chocolate cake.

      If you had infinite time, you still would probably not be able to learn to fly with just your body and still would die if you stopped breathing.