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If your civilization expands at a cubic rate through the universe, you can have one factor of linear growth for population (each couple of 2 has exactly 2 children when they're 20, then stop reproducing) and one factor of quadratic growth for minds (your mind can go as size N squared with time N). This can continue until the accelerating expansion of the universe places any other galaxies beyond our reach, at which point some unimaginably huge superintelligent minds will, billions of years later, have to face some unpleasant problems, assuming physics-as-we-know-it cannot be dodged, worked around, or exploited.
Meanwhile, PARTY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MILKY WAY! WOO!
Due to my innate, if misguided, belief in the fair universe, I hope that everyone can get their own baby universe to nucleate at will. The mechanism has been proposed before:
All these "unimaginably huge superintelligent minds" have to do is to control this process of bubbling.
I see potential problems here, at least for any humans or social nonhumans..
I suspect that being a demiurge of your own universe can be pretty enticing.
This "mechanism" provides no facility for spontaneous generation of new matter and energy resources.