I’ve always thought of space infrastructure (including weaponry) to be very difficult to defend. Like satellites are very easily destroyed by even tiny pieces of debris. I think this would also be true for a megastructure in space, especially if it was a thin very wide diameter object focusing a laser. A defensive ASI on Earth might be able to fire a projectile at the megastructure and cause a massive structural collapse for a relatively cheap cost compared to the energy and materials to build the giant space laser?
So my intuition would be that conflicts between ASIs on Earth and in space would be in favour of the Earth-based ASI until relative power dynamics come into play later on.. the limit on energy generation on Earth seems orders of magnitude lower than what is possible with a Dyson swarm.
Interesting, yeah tend to agree. Doesn’t really change the argument though right? One could make the same argument for an AI that’s further out in space and mobilizes sufficient resources to create a DSA.
I’ve always thought of space infrastructure (including weaponry) to be very difficult to defend. Like satellites are very easily destroyed by even tiny pieces of debris. I think this would also be true for a megastructure in space, especially if it was a thin very wide diameter object focusing a laser. A defensive ASI on Earth might be able to fire a projectile at the megastructure and cause a massive structural collapse for a relatively cheap cost compared to the energy and materials to build the giant space laser?
So my intuition would be that conflicts between ASIs on Earth and in space would be in favour of the Earth-based ASI until relative power dynamics come into play later on.. the limit on energy generation on Earth seems orders of magnitude lower than what is possible with a Dyson swarm.
Interesting, yeah tend to agree. Doesn’t really change the argument though right? One could make the same argument for an AI that’s further out in space and mobilizes sufficient resources to create a DSA.