I am not sure what point you are making with “respect their preferences”, I am not proposing one country go to war with other countries to take the sun. For instance, one way it might go down is someone will just offer to buy it from Earth, and the price will be many orders of magnitude more resources than Earth has, so Earth will accept, and replace it with an artificial source of light & heat.
I may be wrong about the estimates of the value of the energy, neither of us have specified how the rest of the stars in the universe will get distributed. For concreteness, I am here imagining something like: the universe is not a whole singleton but made of many separate enclaves that have their own governance and engage in trade with one another, and that Earth is a special one that keeps a lot of its lineage with present-day Earth, and is generally outcompeted by all the others ones that are smarter/faster and primarily run by computational-minds rather than biological ones.
I think I expect Earth in this case to just say no and not sell the sun? But I was confused at like 2 points in your paragraph so I don’t think I understand what you’re saying that well. I also think we’re probably on mostly the same page, and am not that interested in hashing out further potential disagreements.
Also, mostly unrelated, maybe a hot take, but if you’re able to get outcompeted because you don’t upload, then the future you’re in is not very good.
I am not sure what point you are making with “respect their preferences”, I am not proposing one country go to war with other countries to take the sun. For instance, one way it might go down is someone will just offer to buy it from Earth, and the price will be many orders of magnitude more resources than Earth has, so Earth will accept, and replace it with an artificial source of light & heat.
I may be wrong about the estimates of the value of the energy, neither of us have specified how the rest of the stars in the universe will get distributed. For concreteness, I am here imagining something like: the universe is not a whole singleton but made of many separate enclaves that have their own governance and engage in trade with one another, and that Earth is a special one that keeps a lot of its lineage with present-day Earth, and is generally outcompeted by all the others ones that are smarter/faster and primarily run by computational-minds rather than biological ones.
I think I expect Earth in this case to just say no and not sell the sun? But I was confused at like 2 points in your paragraph so I don’t think I understand what you’re saying that well. I also think we’re probably on mostly the same page, and am not that interested in hashing out further potential disagreements.
Also, mostly unrelated, maybe a hot take, but if you’re able to get outcompeted because you don’t upload, then the future you’re in is not very good.