An alternative reason for building telescopes would be to recieve updates and more efficient strategies for expanding found after the probe was send out.
Oh, interesting, hadn’t thought of this. Yeah, it depends on the returns to a few thousand years of R&D. And it’d often be better to spend your resources launching probes first then do the R&D later, when you have lower opportunity cost.
An alternative reason for building telescopes would be to recieve updates and more efficient strategies for expanding found after the probe was send out.
Yeah that’s what I assumed the rationale was.
Oh, interesting, hadn’t thought of this. Yeah, it depends on the returns to a few thousand years of R&D. And it’d often be better to spend your resources launching probes first then do the R&D later, when you have lower opportunity cost.
Okay, this is now the official explanation.