When I look up at the stars I'm the night sky, they're very pretty, but mostly dead space. I want to live in a galaxy where there are literally millions of Rembrandts, Feynmans, Gauss', etc born every second. Intelligent life in all its forms is beautiful, and I want to see it light up our universe.

That is a nice picture, but by all accounts, wouldn’t we already expect to see this if that were the path before us? Not to say that we will burn out, but I think extrapolating from our flashpoint existence will most likely be erroneous.

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