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that is what I thought when I read the three-body problem. If you can manipulate space-time at the levels exposed in the book you can trivially build orbitals
by riffraff 5y ago
that is what I thought when I read the three-body problem.
If you can manipulate space-time at the levels exposed in the book you can trivially build orbitals that will host trillions of beings and live in a post-scarcity society for millennia, after which your society is likely to disappear waaay before you run out of space and resources.
- yoz-y 5y agoWhy or how would a post scarcity multi planetary or even multi stellar civilisation disappear? I agree that there is no need for plunder, but I don’t think highly advanced civilisations are in risk of extinction.
- riffraff 5y agoWell, I don't know. It is just a common topic in fiction that great civilizations just fade out, and it seems reasonable to me. I do not believe the average individual would want to live forever, and at some point I feel the same would apply to civilizations. But for the sake of fun, I can recall some ideas from literature :) Maybe they evolve into higher states of being and leave our plane of existence. Maybe they stop reproducing and slowly die out. Maybe they reach a level of self-introspection where they believe continuing existing is pointless. Maybe they migrate to a more reliable virtual world in a sub-space computer. Maybe each individual gets its own universe. Maybe the society splinters over some trivial concepts and the old knowledge is lost when the machines start to fail. There's a lot of interesting things that can happen, let's hope we'll find out late enough :)