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Frumpagumpus t1_jcttyih wrote

Reply to comment by cloudrunner69 in Earthly friends : What's the plan ? by IntroVertu

process of building a dyson swarm only works because it's also a recursive feedback loop.

even if you are only interested in existential risk mitigation or not burning earth up with ever increasing computational waste heat, the time cost difference between a recursive process like dyson swarm planet disassembly vs non recursive process like mars terraforming is so large the recursive process is the clear choice

more energy = more compute = better reasoning, including ethical reasoning, ability to seed the entire universe with von neumann probes, better simulations and modeling, etc.

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cloudrunner69 t1_jctvvr4 wrote

But you don't know what other technology might come along in the future that could make a Dyson sphere obsolete.

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Frumpagumpus t1_jctz1kp wrote

there are only so many places you can get energy in our current (often extremely accurate) model of the universe. star is most obvious one.

unknown unknown are useless to speculate on

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