u/DirtAway7786

I have a thought experiment.

Imagine AGI or advanced AI never becomes possible.

Could humanity still colonize space by simply having a much larger population? Instead of relying on intelligent machines, we would rely on many generations of humans. Over time, people would build ships, habitats, and new colonies.

This would probably involve huge numbers of deaths and sacrifices, similar to how ant or bee colonies lose many individuals while the colony continues to grow.

Could this "brute force" approach eventually create an interstellar civilization, or is it impossible for reasons beyond population size?

I'm interested in the scientific and engineering arguments, not whether it would be ethical.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for someone who wants to learn math together through chatting. We can discuss concepts, solve problems, explain things to each other, and stay motivated.

I’m not looking for anything too formal—just a friendly study partner or group where we can ask questions and learn at our own pace.

Anyone interested?

All the atoms in our body go through constant change even the patterns in our brain go through change, the memories fade. Then what is stable? If consciousness can jump to totally new structures, will it continue after death? Because it is doing that right now shifting to new structures.

We're approaching AGI and assume it leads to ASI within years. An ASI would optimize resource use at civilizational scale — Dyson spheres, von Neumann probes, galactic colonization in a few million years. The Milky Way is 13 billion years old. Any civilization with a 1000-year head start on us could have seeded the entire galaxy by now. But the sky is silent. No megastructures. No signals. Nothing. Maybe the Fermi Paradox isn't about biology or war or filters — maybe it's telling us something deeper: true recursive self-improving AGI is impossible, and every civilization hits the same wall we haven't hit yet. The silence might be the answer.