My guess is that the first number is too small, such that there’s always going to be someone willing to trade. However, I’m not confident in this stuff yet.
I agree that not all of the civilizations that care about what happens to us, care in the ways we want them to care. For example as you say maybe there are some that want things to stay the same. I don’t have a good sense of the relative ratios / prevalence of different types of civilizations, though we can make some guesses e.g. it’s probable that much more civilizations want us not to suffer than want us to suffer.
My guess is that the first number is too small, such that there’s always going to be someone willing to trade. However, I’m not confident in this stuff yet.
I agree that not all of the civilizations that care about what happens to us, care in the ways we want them to care. For example as you say maybe there are some that want things to stay the same. I don’t have a good sense of the relative ratios / prevalence of different types of civilizations, though we can make some guesses e.g. it’s probable that much more civilizations want us not to suffer than want us to suffer.