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It is more realistic than the other options given. Anyway it could be done with couple of trillion. There are no theoretical blocks.
by ReptileMan 7y ago
It is more realistic than the other options given. Anyway it could be done with couple of trillion. There are no theoretical blocks.
- simonh 7y agoAside from we don't know even in theory how to do it, which is a bit of an obstacle to overcome, I don't see how this could work without developing AGI first to operate it. That's probably at least a couple of trillion worth of R&D right there, and then again we don't actually know how to start on that even in theory. In total the US already spends half a trillion on R&D per year. The US military spends a trillion on R&D every 15 years and the IT industry does about the same, and bear in mind most of the research these organisations are already doing would be directly relevant to a project like this. So in a way we're already doing it, and I don't see any from-scratch full-civilization self replicating technology architectures coming along on the horizon even as a theoretical exercise. Even for something like interstellar probes at least we have outline designs.