And I am absolutely against destroying them unless you can provide a replacement system that is objectively as good or better, or are willing to take over their jobs.
I don't know, it seem to work when Oriko stuck him in a cat carrier.
What's a millenia or ten? Humanity given the chance will take their jobs on time, and they have a billion years to do so until circunstances force their hand.
Maybe that's because I agree with their logic. Sure it sucks for the people disadvantaged by it, but on an objective measure the Incubators are the good guys. I can't support destroying them unless there is a functional replacement for them.
The difference between success or failure, for all we know. The Incubators have been doing this for Eons, Humanity hasn't even gotten Mars. Unless you have a working replacement, or are willing to pick right up where they left off, destroying the Incubators is unconscionable.
I think he's more of a gestalt, actually.
I honestly can't see it being the first thing they found, because Kyubey jumps on every opportunity he can to make it better, and the prototype is always less efficient than the final product.
Also could this be the euroguca
Their system works. It doesn't make it the best possible outcome, and it causes suffering to us. For all we know, it extends the lifespan of the universe in exchange of all civilized life besides them.
Momucifer says hi.
It's better than anything we have, and "Let's kill the ones with a working system and hope we come up with something better later" is a fucking terrible plan.
Heat death is further away from now than now is from the start of the universe by many orders of magnitude. Unless the Incubators have been working on this since before the universe started, humanity is going to get as experienced as the Incubators trillions of years before it becomes a serious problem.
Best outcome I can think of:
Unless you assume the natural course of civilization is to advance to the point another solution is possible (or perish), and that it takes less time for such civilization to reach that point that the death of the universe. A hundred trillion years is big enough for many groups of 14 billion years to fit, and that's the less optimistic estimate.
Well, no, the less optimistic estimate takes into account that entropy will become a serious problem long before the last black holes evaporate. That's why I said "trillions."
Point taken.
And on the scale we're talking, what makes you think it isn't a serious problem to try and address now? Combating entropy is a beyond-herculean task, it's literally impossible without magic.
Why would it not be quick enough? The incubators managed to do it in less than 14 billion years, likely far less. There is no current mechanism that accelerates entropy in the universe, besides random chance. 14 billion years from now it will be the same universe, if somewhat dimmer and with more galaxies being elliptical.
Because, considering the difference in scale between how long we have and how much time has already happened, that's only slightly more likely than the odds that starting any later than the exact moment of the Big Bang was too late. I know that billions of years seems like a lot but they're honestly too small a timescale to be worth considering here.
We have no idea how effective the operation is. We don't know if they've actually manage to reverse the process to any degree, or if they're barely breaking even, or if they're still not managing enough and are merely slowing its advance.
Madoka's are literally impossible to occur naturally. Unless you're suggesting we artificially boost people's potential via the the hand-over-fist usage of alternate realities like Homura did.
That seems unlikely. Stars are very wasteful. The Incubators almost certainly have a more efficient thing for them to dump their energy into. If we're observing something it's probably natural, though now that I think about it the possibility exists that they built all the black holes.
It happened once in only fourteen billion years, so extrapolating forwards I can very conservatively predict a couple thousand before the last star naturally dies. I don't particularly care if they happen "naturally", they can definitely happen accidentally, and the only thing keeping them from happening on purpose will be poor documentation.