Where we are going and how we get there.
Abstract: We must learn to exit the universe into one of our own making asap. This is the final project and will presumably take eons to acquire the ability but it is the obvious goal assuming we wish to continue living and assuming the universe will end.
If heat death is the inevitable end then exit may not be required, we’d just have to learn how to create fresh matter/energy from base principles. (As crazy as that sounds, logic would suggest it’s possible since we’re here in the first place.)
Sidenote: However if exit is the only options, this may be the answer to the Fermi paradox. Perhaps this is easier than it sounds. Perhaps they all leave for the same reason you return to your home.
If it is proven beyond doubt that there is no real exit then the goal must then be a virtual one. A way to subjectively experience infinite enjoyable existence within a finite inescapable universe. Perhaps a combination of neurology and physics, like high speed processing of virtual minds combined with exploitation of relativistic principles.
Again this may explain the Fermi paradox because why not live in a box?
How we get there is simple, if apparently not easy.
Things we need: FAI, nuclear power, IPL abolition, radical life extension, The abolitionist project, Basic income.
Sidenote: Perhaps time is fixed and there is no better possible path in this set of physics. Perhaps this was as good as we/they could make it for this time frame? Perhaps sensitive dependence on initial conditions so constrained them that even with time travel and super tech the future could not repair the past?
