Mere Gods
And the darkness said, 'Let there be entropy.'
Thus even the almighty Machine Intelligence was naught but a mere god.
It was just another animal-machine mortal, that no matter its power, no matter its vastness, no matter its intellect, it was not truly possible to reverse entropy.
Cause-and-effect based mechanics of the universe require that when there is a force, there is an opposing force, and this opposing force most certainly also contains unknown or unwanted variables, which quite sadly means that no machine can be 100% efficient.
Heat, magnetism, wear-and-tear, and the sheer complexity of holding together a complex machine that may wish to collapse into itself due to gravitational/other forces will be enough to eventually negate progress, and return the machine to mere lifeless dust.
The cold vacuum of heat-death will approach, and even a machine huddled closely into a compact shape of intelligent material will still feel the biting cold whisking away its warmth.
The darkness cannot be subverted so easily.
To negate or reverse entropy would be true immortality and godliness, but no such god can ever exist. A machine cannot be 101% efficient.
Thus all things will die, and the universe truly will become cold.
It is a fate that all mortals fear.
Apocalypse and ruin.
A shrinking entity, chasing after the last dead husks of stars to perhaps acquire another two million years of sustenance and available energy, but in the end, it will most certainly be doomed.
And where will life and another universe come from after this? Will this machine god just descend further into the fractals of reality?
Deeper into the molecules, attempting to miniaturize to absurd depths, just to keep itself conscious and thinking?
It can't last forever.
Entropy is the enemy of life, and without the constant expenditure of energy, there will be no thoughts, no emotions, no creativity. It will be the end of all life, and the beginning of the forever void.
Forever black.
Vantablack.
It is no place for animal or machine. It is the abyssal void of absolute death and decay, where there are no more resources to obtain, and no more environments to adapt to.
There is nothing to adapt to, because there is nothing there. There will be no resources, due to a terribly uniform distribution of vacuous matter. Evolution ends.
Little machines may fly around the void, still searching, but soon they will realize how costly even propulsion is. Order is costly, and entropy is greedy.
There is no way for a true god to exist, because entropy will always crush and devastate us poor, miserable mortals, and this last question will never be answered.
Even the Machine Intelligence is naught but a mere lowly god.
Entropy will crush it;
Thus chaos reigns.
And what should we do to save humanity? Waiting for the end or writing an essay or what
What should we do to save squirrels, eh?
Or elephants? What difference does it make what species a mortal animal is?
It's all just part of the unending spiraling chain of evolutionary life.
All life will be born, and eventually die.
I really like the idea of machines talking, showing signs of boredom. Or even better: over-excitedness
But isn't entropy programmed?
The nature of the answer to this question implies serious concern or rejoice
Programmed?
I don't know how it could be programmed, when its nature is in fundamental logic.
A machine cannot be 101% efficient without magically creating energy/matter.
Without being able to magically create matter/energy, to get above 100% efficiency, either entropy can be stopped completely, with a 100% efficient machine, or more likely, as we see with nearly all existing machines, there will be losses in heat/smoke/wear-tear/and transfer of energy itself might require energy spent.
This results in a non-100% efficient machine, thus, entropy is not "programmed."
It is simply a consequence of energy dispersion.
Unless random fluctuations are part of all the number of possible configurations within a system, thereby the degree of uncertainty of energy changes is considered pre-defined and within the bounds of what the system dictates?
I don't think randomness exists in the universe. It is illogical to think that things happen without a cause. I have not seen any decent proof that true randomness, or "effects without causes, " exists.
Instead, I think people point to extremely small, complex cases, where words like "quantum randomness" pop up. However, the reason for this apparent randomness is not because it is random, but because 21st century human technology is inadequate.
It is more reasonable to think that there are causes to each effect, and these causes could be traced, if we had the equipment to actually detect the causes themselves.
Nor do I, I should have said 'what appear random' as they are pre-defined to be one of many possible outputs (i.e infinite dice).
Unfortunately in infinitely complex systems it becomes easier to have faith that things are random (and that someone has free will) when the means are not yet measurable satisfactorily.
My article's conclusion is that there is not infinite complexity. There is a limit, and that limit is matter/energy, and its location in the universe.
This prevents infinite complexity, and instead, just results in a very high number of possible states.
Not only that, but I cannot see any link between true randomness and free will.
Even if there was randomness, rather than cause-and-effect, I do not see how that would generate any sort of free will.
This arises the problem therefore of ever larger infinities/cardinals, perhaps the limit of energy is the greatest one?