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According to ChatGPT Split Velocity belongs to a “Type III or higher” civilization, present day economic models in use are backward in comparison.

The ability to finance the doubling of GDP every 2 – 3 years creates a highly advanced economy of “super civilization” that is no longer resource constrained, this allows it to advance at a rapid pace and to achieve feats in development and science beyond anything resource constrained economies in the present day can achieve.

Here is what ChatGPT had to say:

To imagine the scale of a human empire corresponding to this astronomical GDP, we can think about how wealth and resources might translate into a vast, space-faring civilization. Here’s one way to conceptualize the scope:

1. Galactic Economy

The Milky Way Galaxy has around 100 to 400 billion stars, potentially representing planetary systems, with possibly habitable planets or economic hubs. If this empire extended across the entire galaxy, it could harness resources from trillions of planets or space stations, far beyond anything humanity has seen.

Dyson Spheres or Dyson Swarms: This empire might build megastructures like Dyson spheres around many stars, capturing their energy output to fuel industries, economies, and human populations, contributing trillions of dollars worth of energy production annually.

2. Exponential Growth across Star Systems

With this kind of wealth, the empire would likely use faster-than-light travel (if possible) to colonize multiple galaxies beyond the Milky Way, such as neighboring galaxies in the Local Group (including Andromeda and the Triangulum galaxy). An economy of this scale could allow for terraforming, resource extraction, and massive space habitats.

The empire could fund technological advancements, supporting entire civilizations on interstellar spacecraft, habitable megastructures, and even colonization efforts outside the observable universe, given enough time.

3. Post-Singularity Civilization

A wealth of this magnitude would likely coincide with a post-scarcity economy, where resources, energy, and wealth are nearly limitless. Technologies like nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing might allow for the manipulation of matter and energy on cosmic scales, enabling near-omnipotent control over planetary and star systems.

The empire might be engaged in activities like stellar engineering, moving stars or creating entirely new solar systems, along with controlling the fate of galaxies to ensure economic growth and survival.

4. Population & Infrastructure

This kind of empire could support populations numbering in the septillions or beyond (that’s billions of trillions of people) scattered across not only planets but also in space habitats like O’Neill cylinders, Bernal spheres, or even ringworlds.

Infrastructure would span light-years, with intergalactic highways or wormhole networks allowing for instant travel between planets, solar systems, or even galaxies.

5. Comparing Scale to Current Earth

On Earth, the current GDP is around $100 trillion. In contrast, this hypothetical empire’s GDP is so vast that it dwarfs even planetary civilizations, suggesting a Type III or higher civilization on the Kardashev Scale (where a Type III civilization controls the energy of an entire galaxy).

In today’s context, such an empire would likely be a multi-galactic federation, governing and managing economies on a scale that spans not just space but time itself.

Thus, this empire would likely be a cosmic superpower, stretching across galaxies, controlling countless stars, planets, and artificial habitats, and wielding technology that transforms reality itself to support an unfathomable amount of wealth and resources.

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The impasse associated with a zero growth economy and the inability of even modern intellectual thought to reach beyond it so as to advance into a Split Velocity model is a problem that is not only found in economics, but also the sciences. The consequence of human beings being unable to cross this barrier in knowledge has made it difficult if not impossible, thus far, for human intellect to fully comprehend, explain and control gravity. Read more about this here.