If there are any economists out there who aren't already nervous and confused about the Great Filter / Fermi Paradox, let me put it this way: You can look up at the night sky and see untouched septillion-dollar bills lying around.
Often true, but here they're having trouble because your ontologies don't match. We're thinking that the stars contain decillions of grams of hydrogen extractible by star-lifting superintelligences, you're asking for documentation on squishy asteroid miners looking for platinum.
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Sad no one else could make this understandable. So the idea is that extracting hydrogen would allow the creation of any and all other materials?
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Sort of. That still doesn't quite match ontology; most of what you need to run computations is negentropy, not silicon. You're mostly converting stars to energy faster or more efficiently instead of letting the light shine wastefully out to nowhere.
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I see. So the septillions of dollars come from the value of stars as sources of energy rather than materials
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