Also technically Alchemy will in fact be cheaply scaled in the future, probably. When we are disassembling entire stars to fund galaxy-wide megaprojects, presumably some amount of alchemy will be done as well, and that amount will be many orders of magnitude bigger than the original alchemists imagined, and it will be done many orders of magnitude more cheaply (in 2021 dollars, after adjusting for inflation) as well. EDIT: Nevermind I no longer endorse this comment, I think I was assuming alignment success for some reason.
Also technically Alchemy will in fact be cheaply scaled in the future, probably. When we are disassembling entire stars to fund galaxy-wide megaprojects, presumably some amount of alchemy will be done as well, and that amount will be many orders of magnitude bigger than the original alchemists imagined, and it will be done many orders of magnitude more cheaply (in 2021 dollars, after adjusting for inflation) as well. EDIT: Nevermind I no longer endorse this comment, I think I was assuming alignment success for some reason.