Jaouhari Youssef

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Paris, France

This is Youssef from Paris, France. I am presently in my final year as a computer engineering student at Telecom SudParis and I'm also pursuing a bachelor in philosophy at Paris X. I am currently interested in building platforms to train software engineers through competitive programming.

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I do agree with you argument concerning the Dyson swarm, as it clearly seems more feasible than a sphere. Regarding the production of the swarm, we do actually need automation to control our near outer space environment.

There is this book written by John Von Neumann about the concept of a universal constructor, it is called "Theory of self-reproducing automata". As described, the universal constructor can build copies of itself, which can also build copies of themself and so one and so forth. We can therefore exploit mining resources of other planets to build the swarm.

The idea is great, but I am not sure if such tool exists. If it does it would then require a consequent quantity of computing considering the complexity of such systems such as the solar one. Additionally, I am afraid this computing load can only be handled by super calculators, it is hence not at the reach of public users.