Thanks for this Tandena. Apologies if the summary is unclear. The book argues that we ought to refrain from initiating effectively irreversible space colonisation processes unless and until robust suffering-mitigating constraints are demonstrated.
By “effectively irreversible processes,” I am referring to actions such as sending probes containing microbes to seed life on distant star systems (directed panspermia), establishing independent colonies capable of further expansion, sending out Von Neumann probes, and so forth. These leaves upon colonisation at intra-Solar System scales, which I argue may be more reliably governed.
Thanks for this Tandena. Apologies if the summary is unclear. The book argues that we ought to refrain from initiating effectively irreversible space colonisation processes unless and until robust suffering-mitigating constraints are demonstrated.
By “effectively irreversible processes,” I am referring to actions such as sending probes containing microbes to seed life on distant star systems (directed panspermia), establishing independent colonies capable of further expansion, sending out Von Neumann probes, and so forth. These leaves upon colonisation at intra-Solar System scales, which I argue may be more reliably governed.