I agree that biological human deliberation is slow enough that it would need to happen late.
By “millennia” I mostly meant that traveling is slow (+ the social costs of delay are low, I’m estimating like 1/billionth of value per year of delay). I agree that you can start sending fast-enough-to-be-relevant ships around the singularity rather than decades later. I’d guess the main reason speed matters initially is for grabbing resources from nearby stars under whoever-gets-their-first property rights (but that we probably will move away from that regime before colonizing).
I do expect to have strong global coordination prior to space colonization. I don’t actually know if you would pause long enough for deliberation amongst biological humans to be relevant. So on reflection I’m not sure how much time you really have as biological humans. In the OP I’m imagining 10+ years (maybe going up to a generation) but that might just not be realistic.
Probably my single best guess is that some (many?) people would straggle out over years or decades (in the sense that relevant deliberation for controlling what happens with their endowment would take place with biological humans living on earth), but that before that there would be agreements (reached at high speed) to avoid them taking a huge competitive hit by moving slowly.
But my single best guess is not that likely and it seems much more likely that something else will happen (and even that I would conclude that some particular other thing is much more likely if I thought about it more).
I agree that biological human deliberation is slow enough that it would need to happen late.
By “millennia” I mostly meant that traveling is slow (+ the social costs of delay are low, I’m estimating like 1/billionth of value per year of delay). I agree that you can start sending fast-enough-to-be-relevant ships around the singularity rather than decades later. I’d guess the main reason speed matters initially is for grabbing resources from nearby stars under whoever-gets-their-first property rights (but that we probably will move away from that regime before colonizing).
I do expect to have strong global coordination prior to space colonization. I don’t actually know if you would pause long enough for deliberation amongst biological humans to be relevant. So on reflection I’m not sure how much time you really have as biological humans. In the OP I’m imagining 10+ years (maybe going up to a generation) but that might just not be realistic.
Probably my single best guess is that some (many?) people would straggle out over years or decades (in the sense that relevant deliberation for controlling what happens with their endowment would take place with biological humans living on earth), but that before that there would be agreements (reached at high speed) to avoid them taking a huge competitive hit by moving slowly.
But my single best guess is not that likely and it seems much more likely that something else will happen (and even that I would conclude that some particular other thing is much more likely if I thought about it more).