From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 03:37:43 MDT
J. R. Molloy writes:
> From: "Scott Badger" <w_scott_badger@yahoo.com>
> > Couldn't an SI simply create and release a
> > deadly airborne human-specific virus with relative
> > ease?
Why would an SI use such archaic and inefficient means? Why would it
even want to snuff us all, because we're not even worth
ignoring. Irrelevant feature of the landscape. Food, at best.
> No, because an SI would not necessarily have access to such power.
Something which absorbs the entire star's output just to operate in
its early infancy will indeed have trouble sterilizing a small
planet's surface (surface? which surface? planets? which planets?)
from biofilm clinging to it. Sure.
> Intelligence does not equate to power. Stupid people often attain power.
> Very intelligent people often die in powerless poverty.
The garden slug and a human being are both equal in power. Especially
if the latter is in the possession of launch codes.
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