At a sufficiently sophisticated technological level, vacuum decay actually becomes worthwhile, as it increases the total amount of available free energy. The problem is ensuring any sort of civilizational continuity before and after the vacuum decay—though, like any other physical process, vacuum decay shouldn’t destroy information, so theoretically if you understood the mechanics well enough you should be able to engineer whatever outcome you wanted on the other side.
Even more importantly, assuming you can change the vacuum constants, one of the best constants to change is Planck’s constant, because assuming the Planck constant is 0, computing power is infinite, not arbitrarily large, but infinity is your limit.
Assuming information isn’t destroyed, this bodes well for uploads and simulations, since their bodies are purely informational, though any physical entity would have to be scanned first.
At a sufficiently sophisticated technological level, vacuum decay actually becomes worthwhile, as it increases the total amount of available free energy. The problem is ensuring any sort of civilizational continuity before and after the vacuum decay—though, like any other physical process, vacuum decay shouldn’t destroy information, so theoretically if you understood the mechanics well enough you should be able to engineer whatever outcome you wanted on the other side.
Even more importantly, assuming you can change the vacuum constants, one of the best constants to change is Planck’s constant, because assuming the Planck constant is 0, computing power is infinite, not arbitrarily large, but infinity is your limit.
Assuming information isn’t destroyed, this bodes well for uploads and simulations, since their bodies are purely informational, though any physical entity would have to be scanned first.