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I've been doing some more work on Mercury Colonization and I genuinely think that rhe colonization and disassembly of Mercury into a massive manufactorum shellworld and ~million kilometer solar collector swarm can happen in ~single digit years with AI. 1 year is probably too aggressive but I think 1 presidential election cycle is doable (3-4 years).
It would be a Kardashev Type 1.7 civilization, vastly superior to Earth and capable of creating massive megastructures such as Banks Orbitals, disassembling other planets and planetoids, as well as powering AI compute at a level vastly beyond what Earth can.
Economics on Earth will increasingly be dominated by human political problems so a move to Mercury makes sense; Mercury also gets 10x the sunlight of Earth so it is easy to disassemble quickly and provides more power.
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