[ExI] Are Dyson swarms a good idea?

[John Clark]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 8:32 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*>> I believe that even for a superintelligence there would be no disputing
>> matters of taste. And you are the one that claims to know how post
>> Singularity Jupiter Brains would behave, you claim they would all behave
>> just like you would, every single one of them. B**ut I do not claim to
>> know that they would all behave in one certain way, and I certainly don't
>> claim **they would all behave just as I would, but if just one of them
>> did then the galaxy would look engineered. But it doesn't. Without tying
>> myself into logical knots I can only think of one explanation for that *
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> *> I made no claims they would agree with me or agree with you. I only
> suggest there are reasons we can expect them to converge on whatever the
> right answer is, and hence, all agree with one another.*


*There is no "right answer" to the question "Do you want to build a Dyson
sphere?", there are only opinions, and as I said there is no disputing
matters of taste.  *

*We see the aliens from the movie independence day as evil for trying to
> wipe out life on Earth. *


*A real stinker of a movie, I wish you'd picked a better example.  *

*> Is it not an equivalent evil to build a Dyson swarm around an alien star
> and preclude any chance of life from emerging on any planet in that system?*


*I don't think so, I feel that converting dumb matter into smart matter is
the very opposite of evil, but that's just my opinion. *


*> I don't know what a post singular mind would consider right or wrong on
> that matter. I only know the answer is not as obvious as you make it out to
> be.*


*You're the one who claims the answer is so obvious everyone will agree
with you, even Mr. Jupiter Brain.*

*John K Clark  *




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