From: Billy Brown (ewbrownv@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Jul 27 1999 - 22:48:28 MDT
Doug Bailey wrote:
> Four possibile explanations for the Fermi Paradox:
> (1) The Greener Pastures Exodus:
A somewhat plausible scenario. There is one additional assumption here that
you didn't note: no one has ever cared enough about us poor gaussians to
bother doing anything about us. It would be trivial for an SI to ensure
that no future sentient race ever has to suffer from mortality, either by
sterilizing the universe or by setting up an autonomous system to uplift new
races once they cross the threshold into sentinece. (Hmm - maybe we don't
qualify yet?)
> (2) The Redundant Universe:
This only works if you eliminate all personal variations as well (otherwise
you will always have some fraction of the population that decides to explore
the universe anyway, for non-economic reasons).
> (3) The Singleton:
Another somewhat plausible scenario. There isn't any particular reason to
think it will happen (so far intelligence has led to more personal
diversity, not less), but we can't rule it out.
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
ewbrownv@mindspring.com
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