I don’t have the astrophysics background to say for sure, but if subjective time is a function of total computational resources and computational resources are a function of energy input, then you might well get more subjective time out of a highly luminous supernova precursor than a red dwarf with a lifetime of a trillion years. Existential risk isn’t going to be seen in the same way in a CPU-bound civilization as in a time-bound one.
If computation is bound by energy input and you’re prepared to take advantage of a supernova, you still only get one massive burst and then you’re done. Think of how many future civilizations could be supercharged and then destroyed by supernovae if only you’d launched that space colonization program first!
I don’t have the astrophysics background to say for sure, but if subjective time is a function of total computational resources and computational resources are a function of energy input, then you might well get more subjective time out of a highly luminous supernova precursor than a red dwarf with a lifetime of a trillion years. Existential risk isn’t going to be seen in the same way in a CPU-bound civilization as in a time-bound one.
If computation is bound by energy input and you’re prepared to take advantage of a supernova, you still only get one massive burst and then you’re done. Think of how many future civilizations could be supercharged and then destroyed by supernovae if only you’d launched that space colonization program first!