[ExI] Are Dyson swarms a good idea?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 7:42 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I am not sure who's definition you are using, but it isn't mine.
>

It's the one you said, if not the one you meant.

I would define evil as follows:
>
> There are outcomes we favor (good ones). Our goal as agents in this
> universe is to increase the probability of favorable outcomes. What makes
> an action evil or wrong is working to decrease the probability of favorable
> outcomes.
>

So, you define evil as working to decrease the probability of favorable
outcomes...

Now you do bring up an interesting consideration, which is that the
> selection of one outcome is always to the exclusion of some other outcome.
> This consideration suggests the most moral thing to do, when given multiple
> options, is to select the action that is expected to bring about the most
> favorable outcomes.
>

...and here, you advocate for working to decrease the probability of all
but one favorable outcome to zero.

Granted, you are reducing the probability of unfavorable outcomes too, but
you didn't say anything about that.

Sure you agree it would be immoral to build a device that will release a
> deadly virus 200 years from now (a time when no one presently alive will be
> around).
>

This list is probably one of the worst on which to assume the audience does
not anticipate being personally around, in some form, in 200 years.
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