If we achieved a multipolar society of digital superintelligent minds, and the economy balloons overnight, I would expect that all the barriers to space travel would be removed. Could superrich, non-digital humans, simply hop on a star-ship and go to some other corner of the universe to set up culture? We may not be able to compete with digital minds, but do we have to? Is space big enough that biological humans can maintain their own culture and economy in isolation somewhere?
How long before the EM’s catch up and we are in contact again? What happens then? Do you think we’d have enough mutual egalitarian instinct that we wouldn’t just take what the other guy has (or more likely, the EM’s just take what we have)? What would the state of the idea of “human rights” be at this time? Could a supercompetitive economy maintain a prime directive, such that they’d leave us alone?
If we achieved a multipolar society of digital superintelligent minds, and the economy balloons overnight, I would expect that all the barriers to space travel would be removed. Could superrich, non-digital humans, simply hop on a star-ship and go to some other corner of the universe to set up culture? We may not be able to compete with digital minds, but do we have to? Is space big enough that biological humans can maintain their own culture and economy in isolation somewhere?
How long before the EM’s catch up and we are in contact again? What happens then? Do you think we’d have enough mutual egalitarian instinct that we wouldn’t just take what the other guy has (or more likely, the EM’s just take what we have)? What would the state of the idea of “human rights” be at this time? Could a supercompetitive economy maintain a prime directive, such that they’d leave us alone?