You’re suggesting a counterfactual trade with them?
Perhaps that could be made to work; I don’t understand those well. It doesn’t matter to my main point: even if you do make something like that work, it only changes what you’d do once you run into aliens with which the trade works (you’d be more likely to help them out and grant them part of your infrastructure or the resources it produces). Leaving all those stars on to burn through resources without doing anything useful is just wasteful; you’d turn them off, regardless of how exactly you deal with aliens. In addition, the aliens may still have birthing problems that they could really use help with; you wouldn’t leave them to face those alone if you made it through that phase first.
I am suggesting, that methastasis method of growth could be good for first multicell organisms, but unstable, not very succesful in evolution and probably refused by every superintelligence as malign.
Think prisoner’s dilemma!
What would aliens do?
Is selfish (self centered) reaction really best possibitlity?
What will do superintelligence which aliens construct?
(no discussion that humans history is brutal and selfish)
You’re suggesting a counterfactual trade with them?
Perhaps that could be made to work; I don’t understand those well. It doesn’t matter to my main point: even if you do make something like that work, it only changes what you’d do once you run into aliens with which the trade works (you’d be more likely to help them out and grant them part of your infrastructure or the resources it produces). Leaving all those stars on to burn through resources without doing anything useful is just wasteful; you’d turn them off, regardless of how exactly you deal with aliens. In addition, the aliens may still have birthing problems that they could really use help with; you wouldn’t leave them to face those alone if you made it through that phase first.
I am suggesting, that methastasis method of growth could be good for first multicell organisms, but unstable, not very succesful in evolution and probably refused by every superintelligence as malign.