Notes

Holidays that fall on same date vs. same week/time of month

Hindu units of time

Deep time

Chronocentrism

our time is special

Copernican principle

our time is not special

Anthropic principle, self-sampling assumption

maybe it is special

Doomsday argument

how much time if left

block universe view

Pascal and Fermat on probability - we did not know how to logically make predictions about the future until probability was ‘invented’

Bayes’ Theorem - based on what we know and if we update what we know, how can we ascribe weight to future events?

Drake equation

Fermi paradox - where is everyone?

Lorenz curve - how time and space dilate as you approach the speed of night

Arrow of time

ENTROPY

Resources

Maxwell’s Demon - could you use perfect knowledge to reverse entropy? no demon has finite memory, fundamental minimal cost to manipulating information. The arrow of time

Meng Po, drink soup to leave bridge and have memory erased

Arcadia play

Superhot VR experience