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This is interesting, but it’s essentially defining advancement as an increase in energy spending I think a sufficiently advanced civilization won’t need to use
by nico 2y ago
This is interesting, but it’s essentially defining advancement as an increase in energy spending
I think a sufficiently advanced civilization won’t need to use that much energy
- Qem 2y ago> I think a sufficiently advanced civilization won’t need to use that much energy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
- nico 2y agoInteresting That means that some civilizations figure out how to be more efficient for real and others just keep increasing their energy use So “advancing” could mean either, and we might find very advanced civilizations on a range of two opposites of a spectrum Nice