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Space Warfare Seems Mostly Defense Dominant

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Epistemic status: I’ve done some thinking and research on this but I am not a physicist and I can easily be wrong about specific things. Sometimes when thinking about the long term future, it is interesting to think about the offense-defense dynamics of a fully colonized ‘mature’ universe. E.g. suppose...

Epistemic status: I’ve done some thinking and research on this but I am not a physicist and I can easily be wrong about specific things. Sometimes when thinking about the long term future, it is interesting to think about the offense-defense dynamics of a fully colonized ‘mature’ universe. E.g. suppose we succeed at aligning AIs and colonize a large section of the universe but there are some unfriendly aliens who have colonized the rest, or alternatively that we have colonized our galaxy with aligned AIs but there’s a bunch of rogue AIs running around in the other galaxies, how worried…

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