I have a lot of issues with the disassembling atoms line of thought, but I won’t argue it here. I think it’s been argued enough against in popular posts.
But I think the gist of it is the Earth is a tiny fraction of the solar system/near solar systems’ resources (even smaller out of the light cone), and one of the worst places to host a computer vs say Pluto, because of heat, so ultimately it doesn’t take much to avoid using Earth for all of its resources.
Grabby aliens don’t really limit us from using solar system/near solar system.
And some of my own thoughts: the speed of light probably limits how useful that large of computers are (say planet size), while a legion of AI systems is probably slow to coordinate. They will still be very powerful but a planet sized computer just doesn’t sound realistic in the literal sense. A planet sized compute cluster? Sure, maybe heat makes that impractical, but sure.
I have a lot of issues with the disassembling atoms line of thought, but I won’t argue it here. I think it’s been argued enough against in popular posts.
But I think the gist of it is the Earth is a tiny fraction of the solar system/near solar systems’ resources (even smaller out of the light cone), and one of the worst places to host a computer vs say Pluto, because of heat, so ultimately it doesn’t take much to avoid using Earth for all of its resources.
Grabby aliens don’t really limit us from using solar system/near solar system.
And some of my own thoughts: the speed of light probably limits how useful that large of computers are (say planet size), while a legion of AI systems is probably slow to coordinate. They will still be very powerful but a planet sized computer just doesn’t sound realistic in the literal sense. A planet sized compute cluster? Sure, maybe heat makes that impractical, but sure.