Much of the value of alien civilizations might well come from the interaction of their civilization and ours, and from the fairness (which may well turn out to be a major terminal human value) of them getting their just fraction of the universe.
Won’t the size of the universe-shard that a civilization controls be determined entirely by how early or late they started grabbing galaxies? Which is itself almost entirely determined by how early or late they evolved?
That doesn’t sound like a fair distribution to me.
I guess we could redistribute some of our galaxies to civilizations that were less lucky than ours in the race, but I wouldn’t expect the same treatment from those that are are more lucky than us...I think. Maybe causal trade / a veil of ignorances does end up equalizing thing here.
Won’t the size of the universe-shard that a civilization controls be determined entirely by how early or late they started grabbing galaxies? Which is itself almost entirely determined by how early or late they evolved?
That doesn’t sound like a fair distribution to me.
I guess we could redistribute some of our galaxies to civilizations that were less lucky than ours in the race, but I wouldn’t expect the same treatment from those that are are more lucky than us...I think. Maybe causal trade / a veil of ignorances does end up equalizing thing here.
Whoops. Answered later in the post.