Malthus: if life can expand, it does. Civilizations too? Search for Malthusian galaxies: http://unenumerated.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/interstellar-archaeology-and-surface.html … & http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/2012/10/05/new-frontiers-in-astronomy-cosmic-abundance-of-kardashevs/#comment-7097 …
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@NickSzabo4 Love this... Question: What if type III's work smaller not bigger? Like... instead of dyson spheres, they go nano.
@JulianSarokin There's still plenty of room at the bottom, but finite: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2009/09/staving-off-cosmic-malthus.html … so Malthusian civ wants to get bigger too.
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@NickSzabo4 wow, insanely good article. Have anything on the relationship between 2nd law of thermo & malthusian civs? Seem connected. -
@JulianSarokin Not off top of head, but agree relevant, both for theory and for searching spectra for engineered surfaces. -
@NickSzabo4 Related article: http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/sage/v10i11f.htm … — Information theory + 2nd law seem to be interconnected as well, which is curious.
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