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Even for an AI, you'd need storage media that are stable for thousands of years, and hardware that will still turn on after thousands of years, and solar panels that are still functional after thousands of years. Oh, yeah, and a fair amount of those thousands of years will be exposed to radiation, including relativistic iron nuclei (fun stuff).

Your AI may not quite be itself when it arrives.



Things last longer at <100 degrees kelvin, which is what you'd be talking about in interstellar space unless you are running a hot reactor.


Nothing clever error detection and correction could not fix. Eq. fountain codes and many many copies on top.

Also you could have some simple repair bots wake up once in a while and fixup stuff (and themselves).




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