Barriers to Becoming a Kardashev Civilization
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The K123 Scale Isn't Fitting
A K1.4 civilization, one with 10 to 20 watts of power as a megawatt society would number 100 trillion people and presumably have no problem fielding our trillion soldiers and billions of battle cruisers. That's assuming very fast growth by humans, and honestly rather slow work by constructors warms. I think come the year 2500, a lot of folks watching this episode on the day that it airs are still going to be around. If we haven't obliterated ourselves or been replaced by something that is not a near-way human, or fond of humans, then it's a civilization in a golden age of post-scarcity where there really shouldn't be any pressure to limit
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