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> Even if most civilizations would stop, a single aggressive one would quickly dominate. Would this affect their model, though? If either of the two civilizati
by zamfi 6y ago
> Even if most civilizations would stop, a single aggressive one would quickly dominate.
Would this affect their model, though? If either of the two civilizations dominates, rather than both being obliterated through mutual destruction, you would expect to see the same thing: that volume of space time is now occupied by a civilization. I’m not sure it matters which one (to their model, of course it would presumably matter to the inhabitants) — and either would be visible and have the effect described in the paper.
- codeflo 6y agoThat was my read as well, it doesn’t make a difference in terms of the total volume occupied by these “grabby” civs. Also, one civilization dominating wouldn’t mean that the other one would magically disappear. As a simple assumption, I can imagine the stronger civ expanding into the territory of the weaker one relatively unhindered (in terms of expansion speed). But the weaker civ would still expand outwards as well. If it’s expansion speed isn’t slower, it would continue to grow in absolute size.
- MattRix 6y agoYep, this was my understanding too. It doesn’t change the fact that the area in space and time is now occupied by grabby aliens. The model and diagrams could easily be modified to use some heuristic like allowing older civilizations to take over younger ones when they collide, but it wouldn’t really matter for the purposes of the argument.