How long until humanity runs at odds with an intergalactic or interdimensional peacekeeper...

How long until humanity runs at odds with an intergalactic or interdimensional peacekeeper? What are the chances that we'd win a confrontation?

What level is our technology during this encounter?
Because at the moment, we'd be utterly fucking blown out of the cosmos.

Let's assume we have 100 colonies, otherwise why would anyone care about us.

Zero chance. First to create AI autowins. Also look up exponential growth.

wouldn't exponential growth be an advantage for us? we have no idea how other civs would function

Why would AI want to grow? Seems like you're projecting.

Exponential growth gives all the advantage to the first species that creates AI. You can't really catch up, ever. If humans are the first sentient species in the whole universe, then we will win.

It's not like two or more species will have a similar technological standing. Universe is too old and evolution of intelligence too rare for that to happen. It's basically rocks vs godmode. Anything in-between is just a blink of an eye in geological time scales.

I'm not saying AI wants to do anything. We will use AI to advance science and technology. We will also us it to make self-replicating robotic workers. Exponential growth in these endeavours will mean that we will soon hit max level.

no guarantee that tech has no ceiling

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