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Will the world's most accessed websites, like YouTube, Wikipedia, ChatGPT, etc. ever shut down one day? (fedia.io)
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Will the world's most accessed websites, like YouTube, Wikipedia, ChatGPT, etc. ever shut down one day?

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[–] 62 points 5 months ago (10 children)

given a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone / everything falls to 0.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (8 children)

    except if it clones itself indefinitely ... like siberian forest trees.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Even they will go extinct eventually, on a long enough timeline.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (6 children)

    not if we export it to other planets first ;-)

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    As unlikely as that is, it could extend their timeline ... but not infinitely.

    Entropy always wins.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    ehh, "entropy always wins" is only valid in closed systems. the universe is not a closed system.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    If you know of a way to move things into and out of the universe, I'm all ears.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    i mean that if you have an infinite space, the total useable energy does not converge to zero even though it does in every small region of that space. local convergence to zero does not imply global convergence to zero. if you took Analysis 1/2 in maths university, you know that.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    if you have an infinite space

    We don't. Unless you can go faster than the speed of light (spoiler: you can't), then you're limited to the observable universe. And that's the theoretical maximum, assuming you can use some sci-fi super-tech to actually travel (very close to) the speed of light. If you can't manage extremely high fractions of light speed, then your available, accessible universe is correspondingly smaller.

    If you took astronomy or cosmology in university, you know that.

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