Jordan Stone

This article was created by Forethought. Read the full article on our website. Abstract In this piece, we ask whether a first mover could prevent others from accessing outer space, or at least raise the cost of doing so. If this is possible, by force or otherwise, they would have...

I think people are very wrong about space colonisation increasing long-term existential security. Once we expand to other star systems, we may begin a self-propagating expansion of human civilisation throughout the galaxy. However, there are existential risks potentially capable of destroying a galactic civilisation, like self-replicating machines, strange matter, and...