Nick Bostrom's paper on the opportunity cost of delayed technological development. The companion cites it for the computational efficiency Bostrom assumed for mature technology, about 2,000 times today's, at which 2025's data-center power would run as many brain-equivalents as all the humans who have ever lived. It sets one rung of the speculative ladder in Fig. 10a (C3).
- Cited in
- the companion paper
- Used for
- C3
- Strand
- The long arc: cosmology & far futures
Cite
@article{bostrom2003astronomical,
title = {Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development},
author = {Nick Bostrom},
year = {2003},
journal = {Utilitas},
url = {https://nickbostrom.com/astronomical/waste},
}