The supposition that we live in a "goldilocks zone" is frankly just nonsense built up by an anthropocentric need to feel self-important, like Copernicus I am here to rescue us from a self-absorbed disaster of thought. Indeed, what is required for life to form is the ability to create complex structures with causal persistence times above a threshold. With this in mind we are able to find many areas where organisms could persist, if we just had the eyes to see them, namely the Sun!

The surface of the Sun is frankly massive, , in contrast consider the habitable region of earth - excluding oceans below photic zones, deserts, and ice caps - which is . The Suns surface exceeds ours by a factor of , so is it not possible there is more to it than meets the eye?

Following Sharma et. al (2023) we are able to define the assembly index, a, of an object as the minimum number of joining steps required to construct it from some basic building blocks. Life, broadly, requires objects where but does not make any assumption about precisely what the base building blocks are. It need not be amino acids, nucleic [...]

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Outline:

(02:01) The Sun Shrimp

(03:59) Sun Shrimp Reproduction

(04:31) Shrimp Complexity

(05:53) The Dyson Sphere, Climate Collapse at Scale

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First published:
April 1st, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z9yAnPiS9CoruFXan/save-the-sun-shrimp-1

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Save the Sun Shrimp!” by Jack

LessWrong (30+ Karma)