(These days I’ll often read some piece of bad news and think to myself, “at least we’re not in a much bigger/richer universe!” followed by “but what does it imply about what is happening in those universes?”)
I agree things aren’t as simple as ” is a big number, therefore optimize the cosmic endowment.” Maybe we should act based on trade/ECL reasons. But the stakes are still high in expectation, as you discuss in Beyond Astronomical Waste.
Have you seen my Is the potential astronomical waste in our universe too small to care about?
(These days I’ll often read some piece of bad news and think to myself, “at least we’re not in a much bigger/richer universe!” followed by “but what does it imply about what is happening in those universes?”)
Of course!
I agree things aren’t as simple as ”