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Every cryptocurrency proposes to replace fiat for the same reasons — it’s decentralized, resistant to inflation, outside of ...

Tech mogul Elon Musk has recently brought attention to the Kardashev scale, a theoretical framework for measuring a civilisation's technological advancement based on its energy consumption and ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has largely been predicated on a specific assumption: that advanced civilizations will inevitably grow, expanding their energy consumption and ...

The gargantuan artificial construct enveloping your local star is going to be rather difficult to miss, even from a few light years away. And given the literally astronomical costs of resources needed ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Civilizations need energy to expand. You’ve probably heard of the Kardashev scale, which classifies civilizations based on their ability to generate and use energy (if you’re ...

A researcher makes the case that in cosmic scale terms, it is a very fast transition from having the start of intelligence and technology to becoming a Dyson sphere scale civilization. A Dyson Swarm ...