Bugle comments on Non-Malthusian Scenarios - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Wei_Dai 26 September 2009 02:44AM

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Comment author: Bugle 28 September 2009 01:39:40PM 0 points [-]

But the new universes also have their own population, though I guess you could colonize universes where humans don't arise rather than universes identical to this one except I didn't scratch my nose just now

Comment author: gwern 10 October 2009 01:25:44AM 0 points [-]

Or just enter the universe early. Suppose our universe were created suchly, and for some reason the creators just had to have a metallic terrestrial planet. Even waiting for all the necessary supernovae, they still have a good billion or 2 years to exploit the Earth before we arose.

And given the Great Silence, it might just be that exploiters don't need to worry about competition in the new universe.