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It's not quite that bad but.... Any CK without the most debased expressions of human frailty wouldn't really be CK.

Imperator's improved quite a bit since Cicero, but yeah the really meaningful distinction between the civilizations were too diffuse and muted to actually matter until then. It's still got a long way to go but the historical events and traditions definitely feel more distinct between playing...

I doubt they'd use the drones for anything but the most remote destinations tho. If the recipient is in an urban area it's virtually guaranteed to be more efficient to use a van because of the densities involved. If you're far out in the suburbs and there's only 3 deliveries destined to your...

Yeah if you can turn it around and save your colony, that's the central confict in the game. Unfortunately some things like "cycling hot water through my base to cool it down" is something you could only fix 50 cycles ago :p I enjoyed starting over with a new idea even if my current base was...

Yeah I stay with wheels until i got 2 stables of hatches. Then it's coal + hatch poop until i can build steam turbines.

Looks like you're about to get temperature problems in your core soon lol. You wanna keep big carbon and heat generating things outside a clean biome. I made the starting biome and like the central core of the map enclosed with insulated tile and put everything that generates heat or co2...

Getting to space isn't too bad once you've got a good steel production system going. With that much saltwater you can kill like 3 birds with one stone with the first tier of rockets too (steam rockets). Just find some steady heat source (i use the magma at the bottom but you can use a few...

Google/Fedex's drone delivery outfit (Wing) officially started Drone deliveries today. They've been doing this in Australia and Finland, but FAA regs take forever.

With exactly that sort very narrow niche application, Google's Sycamore project claims to have achieved Quantum Supremacy with a calculation that Sycamore achieved in less than four minutes but would take the world's most powerful classical computer more than 10,000 years to complete...

That's a nope.

Something along Michio Kaku's point in that video or maybe even as far as actual subjective immortality. I don't want to speculate on what Kaku says, or whether they'd achieve ACTUAL subjective immortality, but if they've made it that far, they have the time to resolve a means to survive beyond...

Well that's just the multiplier that reflects the computational advantage in executing the computation in a cooler universe versus today. Subjectively they experience anywhere from really reaaaaally slowed real time to something close enough so as to be indistinguishable from Tipler's notional...

For which? The computational advantages of aestivating until the universe is cooler is here. There was a paper that critiqued that multiplier, but their assertions about optimizing energy and matter in a cooler universe is sound. They didn't make any assumptions about which end-state the...

No I don't agree. If the filter is behind us (which it may not be), there's no reason to assume that future civilizations won't pursue every last avenue of survival before the furthest galaxies spread too far out of reach. If they can merge just a few thousand supermassives it would still...

Yeah, thanks, I'm well aware of the Big Rip. They'd have to prepare for it long before aestivation. In fact they'd have to start before dark energy and Hubble's law pushes all the nearby galaxies further apart than the speed of light. The longer it takes for them to merge galaxies, the less...

They'd expand to avoid catastrophe because no there's no such thing as a truly closed system. In their case the most pressing catastrophe would be their sun running out of hydrogen fuel and expanding to consume everything in the system before going supernova. If they can build a Dyson Sphere...

So noble. Totally not "failure".

You should report the asshole that forced you to read it then.

They aestivate until the universe is much cooler. Then they'd encase all the remaining supermassive black holes with shkadov engines and merge them into the last black hole in the universe. Today, black holes about the size of earth or larger aren't evaporating because the pressure from the...

There needn’t be any magic tech Involved. Without ANY understanding of physics whatsoever, the BEST CASE SCENARIO for any organism would be survival under any circumstances, not willful embrace of extinction. You can admire the fortitude with which anything faces its extinction, but it’s...

What would you define a managed decline into inevitable extinction then? You were doing more than enough nitpicking for all of us so I didn’t wanna doink on your parade but isn’t it a little weird that you’re so open to entertain the possibility that advanced civilizations would bypass the...

Well I definite told you I don’t necessarily agree that’s the best case. SURVIVAL would be the best case. That gets into some speculative stuff into the far future but I think the basic premise is sound: between now and the heat death of the universe enough smart people will emerge who...

LMFAO you agree that civilizations that give up and halt expansion and exploitation for any reason would qualify as failures then? I‘ve been addressing that as the only distinction between your assessment of the Malthusian answer and mine. What did I “misread” then? Do you just want to...

I’ve kept telling you that civilizations falling into the Malthusian Trap is indistinguishable from your proposition that some planets simply fail or refuse to transition to higher tiers on the Kardashev scale.YOUR objection seems entirely focused on regarding this barrier as “failure”, when in...

No I've repeatedly said I don't necessarily agree that every advanced species accepts the inevitability of their destruction. There's absolutely a difference between a single-planet species that goes extinct and some advanced civilization that expands to exploit stellar energy---one goes...

Because if they did even as recently as 5-50 million years ago, we would see evidence of their civilization everywhere in the Milky Way, unless some socio-political or cultural compulsion reconfigures their resource distribution in such a way that those colonization efforts are half-hearted or...

LOL so the one who had more time to contemplate extinction is somehow LESS extinct? If they successfully sent seedships out to other stars they would NOT be extinct. A graceful death is no less dead than a sudden one.

Yeah I have no idea why the prospect that civilizations who "Found peace with entropy and embraced nature" is somehow distinct from civilizations that were asphyxiated by a clathrate gun that kills most of the species on the planet or alien dinosaurs that go extinct because of a meteor strike...

But computational matter would STILL be hot. At minimum it would hotter than inert gases in intergalactic space, but if it's the computational substrate of an advanced civilization it would be hot enough to stick out like a sore thumb. The denser and more efficient the computation the hotter...

Only the really shitty ones NEED to use their politics to sell their books. In Faulkner's day a "potboiler" would involve writing about helpless college girls getting ensnared into prostitution. Today it's fucking virtue signalling that gets people to donate to your patreon. Steven King is...

The Expanse?

I draw the line at redhead neanderthals tho.

Yeah it's not optimal. But it's almost certainly gonna happen....if only because it will probably happen ON EARTH first, long before we send any seedships out. I mean, why bother with the expenditure of a massive totalitarian police state to mitigate the risks in the Vulnerable World...

I mean, there IS extant technology to mitigate that... and not just with a legion of advanced Tay-chan Nanny-bots: CRISPR exists and we know the genetic markers for personality determination. If you want to get into some serious "philosophical complications" wait till you get a load of my...

Good point, some of us descended from thirsty neanderthal-chasers. Life finds a way.

Culture? LOL they won't even LOOK LIKE us after a few generations. Trappist-1D is one of the best candidates in a star's habitable zone and that has half the Earth gravity. If the colonists somehow adapt to deal with the bone loss and other effects, they'd speciate from us soon enough...

The whole point about "1969 technology" is that the means to achieve that velocity has existed for decades and we can reasonably assume that some species can arrive at the same conclusions WE did about rocket technology that's over a thousand years old. Cuz remember, rockets aren't "1969...

No idea. Dunno if there's a calculator out there but it kinda sounds like it would tip over Tsiolkovski's limits on rocket efficiency. Boosting all the propellant for the mission wouldn't be the most efficient anyway, even in multistage rockets. Maybe do something like have additional fuel...

Dawn's ion thruster had enough propellant to provide for constant acceleration for 5.9 years. That was about 600 pounds of Xenon and it was juuuust enough to complete its orbital insertion to Vesta. It's expressed as 5.9 years of delta-v since it had to accelerate, decelerate, maneuver etc to...

Right but at that speed even the momentum imparted by red-shifted photons start pulling back on your velocity exponentially. If you hit a particle with mass, then it's catastrophic. So you'd either want to sweep the space in front of you with something well ahead of time or factor in the...