Well put. I like to think of the digital world and outer space as the big multipliers of what’s possible for the extent of sentient experience. Having control over what can scale in these two worlds seems essential to achieving the best futures and avoiding the worst.
One thought is that the most rapid scale-up of all time(?) happens in coming years/decades here in solar system since you’re both densifying compute and scaling up from K=~0.7 to K=2
You might later scale to Kardashev 3 and 4 at 10 OOMs for each point you climb on Sagan-Kardashev scale but this takes on the order of a hundred thousand plus years and billions of years minimum respectively while I’m assuming you’ve saturated the tech level long before then.
The distinct eras in the universe are maybe:
pre-singularity, singularity to K=2+tech maturity (call it ~10-100 years), K=2+tech maturity to K=3 (maybe 100k years), K=3 to K=4 (~tens of billions of years)
Well put. I like to think of the digital world and outer space as the big multipliers of what’s possible for the extent of sentient experience. Having control over what can scale in these two worlds seems essential to achieving the best futures and avoiding the worst.
One thought is that the most rapid scale-up of all time(?) happens in coming years/decades here in solar system since you’re both densifying compute and scaling up from K=~0.7 to K=2
You might later scale to Kardashev 3 and 4 at 10 OOMs for each point you climb on Sagan-Kardashev scale but this takes on the order of a hundred thousand plus years and billions of years minimum respectively while I’m assuming you’ve saturated the tech level long before then.
The distinct eras in the universe are maybe:
pre-singularity, singularity to K=2+tech maturity (call it ~10-100 years), K=2+tech maturity to K=3 (maybe 100k years), K=3 to K=4 (~tens of billions of years)