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RobinHanson's avatar

I mean that far mode predicts what we'd think, not what is true.

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lump1's avatar

But doesn't their sheer size make that unlikely? On your model, it doesn't take long before one front of expansion literally leaves the lightcone of the opposite front.

I'm also exploring this idea that expansion might be something might be a kind of emigration - that if you're happy with your society's qualities, you want to stay physically close to them. Only the unsatisfied or eager to experiment with new social models will head for the frontier. That seems to me to generate a profoundly divergent and diverse patchwork that puts Earth's diversity to shame.

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