How Many Sentients Does It Take?
How many maximized sentient minds does progress take? These aren’t real answers, just food for the thought experiment.
- 1 million - fire
- 50 million -
- 100 million - agriculture
- 500 million -
- 1 billion - calculus
- 50 billion - electricity
- 100 billion - quantum mechanics (we are roughly here)
- 500 billion - reactionless propulsion
- 1 trillion - strong AI
- 50 trillion - cold fusion
- 100 trillion - biological immortality
- 500 trillion - molecular fabrication
- 1 quadrillion - matterenergy manipulation
- 50 quadrillion - spacetime manipulation
- 100 quadrillion -
- 500 quadrillion -
- 1 quintillion (1squint or 1SQ) - manipulation of the universe’s fundamental physical constants