Yeah, I was somewhat lazily referring to planets and similar as ‘units’. I wrote a lot more about this here.
I don’t think precariousness would be that much of an issue by the time we have the technology to travel between stars. Humans can be bioformed, made digital, replaced by AGI shards, or just master their environments enough to do brute force terraforming.
Even if you do think they’re more precarious, over a long enough expansion period the difference is going to be eclipsed by the difference in colony-count.
Yeah, I was somewhat lazily referring to planets and similar as ‘units’. I wrote a lot more about this here.
I don’t think precariousness would be that much of an issue by the time we have the technology to travel between stars. Humans can be bioformed, made digital, replaced by AGI shards, or just master their environments enough to do brute force terraforming.
Even if you do think they’re more precarious, over a long enough expansion period the difference is going to be eclipsed by the difference in colony-count.