Adam Brown

Is the most important thing that all of the value will be created here on Earth, and we just need to get as many resources back here on Earth.

And it's, you know, there are super linear returns to scale of having accumulated resources in one place.

So we just want to make Earth an absolute paradise.

Or do we want to spread, is in fact sublinear, and we want to spread civilization all the way throughout all of these galaxies.

I think questions like that are going to be important in addressing your question of what the returns to scale are and returns to trade as well.

Just because it may prove to be so much more efficient to do things in simulation than to do them in the real world, my guess would be a high percentage of that.

But maybe that's wrong.

Yeah, I think this is a super interesting question.

So it returns to the question we were asking before.

quantum computers we know for example that the amount of quantum computation you can do in terms of the the equivalent amount of classical computation and trying to do some factoring algorithm or something grows super linearly with the number of qubits in fact it grows almost exponentially with the number of qubits so a 200 qubit quantum computer

is much more than twice as good as a 100 qubit quantum computer.

For certain tasks, but for the tasks that we try and use quantum computers for, that's true.

So that line of reasoning might lead you to believe that in the distant future, we will just try and, even paying the cost of the redshift and all these other questions, we'll feed all of the energy and free energy

back into one central quantum computer, and it'll all be about making that central quantum computer as big as we possibly can, even at the cost of inefficiency.

On the other hand, there are other kinds of tasks for which actually having a twice as big computer is not that much better, or certainly not more than twice as better as having two smaller computers.

In that scenario, it'll be a more distributed setup.

Yeah, either it would need to be co-located or you need to send the quantum coherence.

That's actually not that hard to do.

It's a property of photons that they do tend to maintain.

When they're propagating in the vacuum, they basically maintain their coherence for a very long way.