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It's also a waste of energy to work to capture energy you don't intend to use. Using less energy more efficiently is also logical.



More energy is more computation.


That doesn't mean an advanced civilization would need to harness the output of an entire star for computational power.

Unless maybe it's storing everything on blockchain.




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