> Last week [Anders Sandberg] got a rather severe
> cold and had a marvellous fever dream - I was an interstellar
> economy...
You were an interstellar economy? Cooool! Did you have wispy tendrils of capital stretching across the cosmos? Billions and billions of wealth concentrations, slowly wheeling in stately arcs, spewing vast quantities of electromagnetic venture capital thoughout the vast emptiness of space? With mysterious startup black holes absorbing most of it and returning nothing? {8^D
Great fever dream Anders! If we upload, I wish to find you and get inside your marvelous brain, just to play among all the remarkable structures to be found there. Hope you are feeling better! {8-] spike