Interstellar travel will probably doom the long-term future
My intuition is that most of the galactic existential risks listed are highly unlikely, and it is possible that the likely ones (self-replicating machines and ASI) may be defense-dominant. An advanced civilization capable of creating self-replicating machines to destroy life in other systems could well be capable of building defense systems against a threat like that.
My intuition is that most of the galactic existential risks listed are highly unlikely, and it is possible that the likely ones (self-replicating machines and ASI) may be defense-dominant. An advanced civilization capable of creating self-replicating machines to destroy life in other systems could well be capable of building defense systems against a threat like that.