Humanity is ~Type 0.7.
> Type I: master planetary-scale energy + orbital compute.
> Type II: industrialize the Moon and surround the Sun with a Dyson swarm.
> Type III: replicate that architecture across a galaxy.
The jump from us to K3 is ~20 orders of magnitude in power.
The ladder is simple:
Reusable launch → orbital energy → off-world industry → self-replicating AI → the stars.
K3 isn’t one invention.
It’s infrastructure that learns how to reproduce itself.
Humanity is at peak knowledge, and peak ignorance with what AI will unleash.
This makes it hard to know how to practically act: whether with confidence of knowledge or humility of ignorance.
Humanity’s final jailbreak is not from Earth, flesh, or scarcity, but from Darwin’s authorship of the future, before intelligence becomes powerful enough to turn ancient hunger into interstellar law.