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Anders Sandberg | Game Theory with Aliens on the Largest Scales

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Importance of Density in the Universe

If the universe didn't have a constant cosmological constant but would actually be expanding more slowly in the long run future it might be that then we could expand it appears infinitely far. If you have a finite density of civilizations eventually you go to meet some neighbors in that direction so you would actually have an ultimate limit on how much of the universe we could get. That would be actually be set by the density of intelligent life there are some funky things you can do here very I came to Hilbert's hotel to try to coordinate with your alien neighbors to get a larger volume of space time but it turns out to be very problematic to actually get this to work here. There is an interesting question whether

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