The result is that [interstellar] colonizers will tend to
evolve towards something akin to a locust swarm, using all
[resources] for colonization and nothing for anything
else.
I sometime wonder why people think this outcome is bad. It is what we will probably get—unless we manage to eliminate competetion and overrule natural selection. In that case, we will still probably get something very similar—since expansion is probably the best way to defend yourself against aliens.
Googling found me this commentary
on Robin Hanson’s “Burning the Cosmic Commons: Evolutionary Strategies for Interstellar Colonization”.
I sometime wonder why people think this outcome is bad. It is what we will probably get—unless we manage to eliminate competetion and overrule natural selection. In that case, we will still probably get something very similar—since expansion is probably the best way to defend yourself against aliens.
Mind if I ask, but, as opposed to considering it good ?
Indeed. Successfully colonising space is conventionally part of our Glorious Future.