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I love this somewhat tangentially related article: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...



In a world with hard-capped energy use the incentives to expand into space would be enormous, I don't think it's unrealistic at that point to think the growth will continue outwards.

In particular one can imagine outsourcing every high-entropy activity to space and leaving Earth for low-entropy high-value activities.




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