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morganism comments on Open Thread April 25 - May 1, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: morganism 30 April 2016 12:19:16AM 0 points [-]

According to this guy, there are no Kardeshev Type 3 civs out there.

He doesn't seem to address the galactic quenching question, just uses a complete collection scenario

Type III Societies (Apparently) Do Not Exist

http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07844

Oh, and don't use the "more than the atoms than in the universe" analogy lightly

http://norvig.com/atoms.html