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Carl, on longer timescales, see this post.

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All of Robin’s original concerns are about long term effects on massive future populations

Elsewhere in this thread Robin talks about focusing on humanlike ems in era measured in "doublings" i.e. a period of a handful of years or less (with Robin's current growth rate estimates) out of trillions, concentrated in the Solar System rather than the accessible universe. From a total utilitarian point of view that's pretty negligible.

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