On a less silly note I quite like the idea that the universe only sustains intelligent life because intelligent life is how universes reproduce. Any universe without the weird physics that enables life will have died out, as many of our future universes will once we finish the worldmakers.
The article was indeed great. Currently watching the video, cheated my way to the Dueterium Bottleneck, not only because that was my birth name (and later the name of a postpunk band), but because the title caught my attention.
Did I say I'd reappear to talk talkshow stuff in May? I've been tidying the thing up, refining the direction of it. Some episodes are now audio only, and interestingly, will soon be spliced with video of me building the concepts talked about in Minecraft or Lego. The idea is if a guest chats about the universe, I build some cosmic stuff.
There's an interesting bridge building in my head (admittedly, that was already there from my sci-fi musings) that connects the End Poem with procedural generation of a universe and the evolution of a universe. Of course I am just throwing ideas around, it'll be your show for the day, I just exist to improvise over the wisdom of my guests.
Whilst the universe might resemble a platypus for all its multifaceted utility, I propose that if we zoomed out enough, waited enough, and imagined enough, it would actually be a giant crab. If we glance quickly (and not any longer) at biology it stands to reason the universe wants to be a crab. The convergent evolution of cosmoses leads toward crab.
Careful, I could go back even further in time, and make my previously great article terrible, thus confounding your plan…
On a less silly note I quite like the idea that the universe only sustains intelligent life because intelligent life is how universes reproduce. Any universe without the weird physics that enables life will have died out, as many of our future universes will once we finish the worldmakers.
The article was indeed great. Currently watching the video, cheated my way to the Dueterium Bottleneck, not only because that was my birth name (and later the name of a postpunk band), but because the title caught my attention.
Did I say I'd reappear to talk talkshow stuff in May? I've been tidying the thing up, refining the direction of it. Some episodes are now audio only, and interestingly, will soon be spliced with video of me building the concepts talked about in Minecraft or Lego. The idea is if a guest chats about the universe, I build some cosmic stuff.
There's an interesting bridge building in my head (admittedly, that was already there from my sci-fi musings) that connects the End Poem with procedural generation of a universe and the evolution of a universe. Of course I am just throwing ideas around, it'll be your show for the day, I just exist to improvise over the wisdom of my guests.
If you're still up for it sometime, my email is halfplanetpress@gmail.com :)
Whilst the universe might resemble a platypus for all its multifaceted utility, I propose that if we zoomed out enough, waited enough, and imagined enough, it would actually be a giant crab. If we glance quickly (and not any longer) at biology it stands to reason the universe wants to be a crab. The convergent evolution of cosmoses leads toward crab.
My vote is on the crabniverse.