Adam Brown: belief

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…No, no, no. As in the whole, like, there's like other bubbles. Not about something our descendants might do, but the fact that the big bang was the result of a bubble within some other metastable state. That's a tricky question. But since you asked it, I'd say probably 50%. There's a lot we don't understand about any of these questions. They're all super speculative. It's an active area of research how to combine quantum mechanics and expanding universes. On the other hand, it seems pretty natural when you do combine quantum mechanics and gravity and try and fit them all together in a consistent picture. If universes can expand a lot, then at all, according to the gravitational theory, then quantum mechanics will naturally populate those bits that can expand a lot, and so you'll naturally end up with an expanding universe. So I would say probably in my heart, slightly higher than 50%, but I'm going to round it down to 50 out of epistemic humility. It's funny because this is often the way people talk about their AI timelines of, like, really, I think it's like 2027, but if I'm taking the outside of you, I'm going to say 2030. Okay. And is there any way, given our current understanding, of using bubble universes to do useful work for the people outside of it? So to do some computation within it or to get some sort of actual energy out of it for the people.…

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