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You can use the dyson structure for other things.. there is a (sci-fi'esque) suggestion called a Matrioska Brain I think, where the entire dyson structure is made of computational substrates - it could be conveniently powered by the solar radiation but also by fusion. Given the track of AI and realistic world sims, everything might end up "living" inside one of those structures..

You would have to protect it pretty decently though..

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> Matrioska Brain I think, where the entire dyson structure is made of computational substrate

Well let's compare star to the amount of available material in Solar System - I don't think that there is enough material to build one layer, let alone several + protective layer.

protect it... like running more than one instance of everybody so that we still experience continuity when a bolide strikes a compute node? Or like, we build a wall?

Por que no los dos?

Because it's unclear where you'd get the mass for the wall. Seems better to just let the nodes fail sometimes and tolerate the unreliability in a RAID sort of way.

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