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Not much point in reasoning about magic though, might as well say "God will provide" as it gives similar insight. I think assuming that the laws of physics, as
by nullc 4y ago
Not much point in reasoning about magic though, might as well say "God will provide" as it gives similar insight. I think assuming that the laws of physics, as we understand them, and reasoning whats possible and likely within them is a lot more interesting.
I can come up with one respons within the believed laws of physics at how a hypothetical stable civilization could suppress exponential ones even though exponential ones would quickly be expanding their radius at close to C: the stable civilization would need to pre-seed the visible universe with idle hidden outposts of a sufficient density to detect and suppress exponential expanders.
- pencilguin 4y agoThe non-expansionists don't need to fight all possible expansionists. They only need to fight the ones that come around. If B can't beat A, A will soon encounter C, and then D and E, with a fresh roll of the dice each time. The bigger they get, the more adversaries they cross. We are not predicting the future, but trying to account for an observation. For the scenario to remain on the list of reasons why we haven't been visited, it suffices that it is possible. There are of course lots of other possible reasons, among them that there is nobody to visit.
- nullc 4y ago> The non-expansionists don't need to fight all possible expansionists. They only need to fight the ones that come around. That come around us since we're trying to explain why we haven't seen an expansionists. So this line of thinking predicts that we're in the shadow of a non-expansionists, I guess?
- pencilguin 4y agoExactly.