Re: >H Re: transhuman-digest V1 #562

From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 09:11:16 MST


Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> > [...] 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.

Limits to growth? An upper bound on complexity? They only
need to eat so much before they figure a way out of this
universe? If we'd been eaten we wouldn't be here to ask why
we haven't been eaten...?

BM



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