The importance of this and related topics is premised on humanity’s ability to achieve interstellar travel and settle other solar systems. Nick Beckstead did a shallow investigation into this question back in 2014, which didn’t find any knockdown arguments against. Posting this here mainly as I haven’t seen some of these arguments discussed in the wider community much.
The importance of this and related topics is premised on humanity’s ability to achieve interstellar travel and settle other solar systems. Nick Beckstead did a shallow investigation into this question back in 2014, which didn’t find any knockdown arguments against. Posting this here mainly as I haven’t seen some of these arguments discussed in the wider community much.
I also recently wrote up some thoughts on this question, though I didn’t reach a clear conclusion either.