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Sniffnoy comments on Don't plan for the future - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: PhilGoetz 23 January 2011 10:46PM

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 25 January 2011 03:38:48AM 1 point [-]

I don't think his idea actually relies on intergalactic travel being difficult, just the way he stated it. If, say, intergalactic travel is easy, but not intercluster, then the idea could still apply, just at the galactic cluster level rather than at the galaxy level.