On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 04:58:40PM +1000, Kenneth Barns wrote:
> Indeed.  I think the idea of 600 people, no matter how high their IQ,
> building a Dyson sphere, in 300 years, is ... unlikely.  :)

Maybe the "600 people" count doesn't include the 10^18 near-sentient
self-replicating AIs they control, that actually did all the work?  If
they could sustain a doubling time of about 5 years, it could be
semi-plausible.

This is all extremely unlikely of course, but less unlikely than doing
it all with dumb machinery.

- Tim