[ExI] A new answer to the Fermi paradox?

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sat Jul 18 00:49:53 UTC 2026


On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 8:31 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> For every unit of energy you spend in the present era, you could have gained 10^30 X more utility by saving that energy to spend it in the later era.

Assuming you can perfectly store that energy over such time periods -
which, even with superintelligent-designed energy storage, seems
unlikely to be the case - and ignoring the opportunities to gain extra
energy by spending it now, which will be unavailable if it is stored
for now instead.



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