Because of asteroid mining? What is/are the particular industry/industries worth septillions of dollars?
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Entire stars / planets / ecosystems / black holes
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Extracting resources from them? What is the money maker?
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Whatever you think might be worth money on Earth, all put together, as a start. Earth is an example of a planet. Other planets not having been utilized is a sign that something is up. And we know of even better uses we can put to stars rather than letting them burn away.
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I appreciate the explanation. Could you elaborate and/or give me relevant references?
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Great filter: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Great_Filter … fermi paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox … dyson spheres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere …
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Thanks, but I meant references about future space industries worth septillions of dollars
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Petition to rename the Fermi Paradox to the Extremely Inefficient Market Hypothesis.
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How many paperclips could we make with all that?
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Are you advocating open borders with the Andromedans?
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Not necessarily. We don't yet have the telescopes capable of studying pulsars that an alien civilization would logically start Dysoning up first. Pulsars are fairly hard to study, but emit a lot of energy along constant vectors. Worthwhile explanationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX6WdVFWzqs …
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This implies they only manage what they need. Surely instead they would send almost costless self replicating probes to lay claim to everything they could. Which would be everything.
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Fair point, but if they'd done we probs wouldn't exist bc anthropic principle. We're fairly confident they haven't sent out the Von Neumans bc we can see the stars. To me, it seems more likely we're probably missing something (or a lot).
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Given the vast upside and existential downside why wouldn’t you use VNPs to capture your entire Hubble Volume as quickly as possible?
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Or you can be happy at the golden silence in that we may have already passed the great filter.
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I'm skeptical as long as we can't replicate abiogenesis. Lots of trends don't extrapolate, and just as all prior origin of life stories have foundered (since Erasmus Darwin), future stories probably just as flawed.
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If that’s the case then it simply means that abiogenesis is the great filter. Or at least a great filter.
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