From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 16:02:03 MST
Bryan Moss wrote:
>
> The space of indifference (towards
> us, a tiny spec in this cosmos) is far greater than the
> space of good or bad, thus more appropriate (although still
> conservative) figures might be 10% good, 80% indifferent,
> and 10% bad. With indifference we're very likely to be used
> for spare atoms, I'm going to say 90% likely.
If the Powers are that hungry, why didn't the first sentient species to
transcend eat the Universe? *Bzzzt* Fermi Paradox.
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