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anyone else: why don't you just use that gauntlet to create more resources thanos Go and read Thomas Malthus if you want to understand why increasing resources won't help. The infinity gauntlet might make me the most powerful being in the universe, but it can't undo the logic of time's arrow, Sure, I can turn back time, but time must pass for people to live their lives, and as time passes entropy increases. As the population grows, more and more useful energy or negentropy gets used up. Even I can't make the universe's resource supply infinite, or turn off the laws of thermodynamics, and I judge that it's better to have fewer people living vastly longer, happier lives. If I use the gauntlet repeatedly, every few centuries or millennia, to cull the population and keep it low, like a compassionate Shepard who knows his herd can't ever grow too large, then the universe could become sustainable for trillions of trillions of years. A true garden. Life could survive almost endlessly on a finite resource budget if it stops expanding, but if I just keep increasing resources, life will expand ever faster, and get greedier and greedier. The limited negentropy of the universe will only be used up more rapidly. Go and read your terran philosopher Derek Parfit on the repugnant conclusion, and imagine a future of vast numbers of mediocre, miserable lives or a future of far fewer, far happier lives. Do you really want an eternal future of trillions upon trillions of people living lives barely above subsistence level? Because if I double resources that will still happen. It will happen later, but when it happens it will be worse by far. The universe has to end someday, and I will stave off that death as long as possible 10 cos x

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