I’m skeptical about Matrioshka brains because of the latency issue. They seem to be an astronomical waste. Also, I suspect future civilizations will want to preserve much of the pristine matter in their systems because it serves as valuable prime information. If you rip apart a planet and turn it into a bunch of circuitry you have just lost a trove of information about the real universe.
I haven’t analyzed it in detail, but it seems that a supernova wouldn’t be as big a deal for an advanced AI society. They could just as easily live underground behind shielding and use the surface merely for harvesting some solar power.
I’m skeptical about Matrioshka brains because of the latency issue. They seem to be an astronomical waste. Also, I suspect future civilizations will want to preserve much of the pristine matter in their systems because it serves as valuable prime information. If you rip apart a planet and turn it into a bunch of circuitry you have just lost a trove of information about the real universe.
I haven’t analyzed it in detail, but it seems that a supernova wouldn’t be as big a deal for an advanced AI society. They could just as easily live underground behind shielding and use the surface merely for harvesting some solar power.