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ooli · 109 days ago · link · · parent · post: Advanced Civilizations Could be Indistinguishable from Nature
You might be right. I never looked at the calculation, just report what I read.
I suppose it is about the exponential of the growth, every planet you reach launch a new ship: 1 planet -> 2 planet -> 4 planet- 8,16,32...
... by the 36th time (72k years in my example) you did that you're at 34 billions planets.
And that not even counting the fact, that the first planets can continue to launch new ships in the meantime.
So the paradox is : since none of that happened, what prevented it. You can tweak the time to reach planet , rate of new planet conquest, and stuff and it still should have happened, so there must one fondamental reason it didnt, hence the article about living in equilibrium with your planet