Re: Practical Cosmology Symposium--Five Papers Now Online

From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 03:11:17 MDT


On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:

> Why would you wish to out-run a Singulairty anyways? If you like what
> Hans Moravec said about such a singularity, the afterward of such and
> event would leave its component beings far better off, then before
> being occulted.

Unless said components are dead. But I agree, you can't outrun a
Singularity. Early pioneers do look a lot like flies in amber, frozen in
transit.

It will take a while to breed the fastest replicators. There are several
strategies possible, with different tradeoffs (lightweight replicators for
short hops, heavyweight for longer hops, self-propelled and photonically
driven, hybrid, etc). Given what little we know, it appears impossible to
predict how a mature pioneer front will look like.



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