From: Robin Hanson (hanson@econ.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 21 1998 - 16:21:04 MDT
den Otter writes:
>Bigger is better. Tiny microbe-like posthumans don't
>stand a chance against a jupiter brain, neither
>physically nor intellectually.
But the better question is how that jupiter brain
competes against a group of tiny posthumans that
cost the same total amount. Since jupiter is 10^30gms,
the jupiter brain might compete against 10^30 gram sized
posthumans.
Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
RWJF Health Policy Scholar, Sch. of Public Health 510-643-1884
140 Warren Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 FAX: 510-643-8614
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