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There is a fair amount of thought that has gone in to that, often referred to as the Wait Calculation. An interesting example was "Interstellar Travel - The Wa
by JNRowe 7y ago
There is a fair amount of thought that has gone in to that, often referred to as the Wait Calculation.
An interesting example was "Interstellar Travel - The Wait Calculation and the Incentive Trap of Progress"¹, which somehow isn't on libgen [yet?].
1. http://www.jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2006.59.239 http://www.jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2006.59.239 - The incentive trap of linking to a £5 download for fifteen year old paper is another paper entirely.
- marbs 7y agoThe "incentive trap" has also been referred to as the "incessant obsolescence postulate", in this paper from 2011 titled "Energy, incessant obsolescence, and the first interstellar missions": https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1066 https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1066
- LeifCarrotson 7y agoThe author also uploaded that paper to Researchgate, where it's available for free: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260275150_Interstellar_Travel_-_The_Wait_Calculation_and_the_Incentive_Trap_of_Progress https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260275150_Interstel... (edit: I presume the downvotes are for linking to Researchgate? I know they're not held in high regard like Arxiv, they're more like a sleazy Linkedin for academics, but if there's valuable content there why not use it?)