From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 08:34:21 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> No, but others should to my thinking. I can only reach perhaps
> four conclusions in thinking about [S]ETI:
> (a) It is very difficult for life to get started and evolve to
> technological civilizations.
> (b) SIs evolve to the point of:
> benevolence|caretaking|indifference|quiescence.
> (c) We are seeing our [local] universe at a *very* unique
> time-point (before the SIs have consumed all the power sources).
> (d) The path to SIs is universally fatal.
So then why aren't the aliens here already? Equipped with
nanotechnology, they sweep from star to star at slower-than-light
speeds, engaging in Dysoneering and playing Culture to primitive
cultures, and run out of stars in any given galaxy in, say, less than a
million years. No spacetime engineering; that's a Power's game.
Where are they?
Don't tell me they *all* had Singularities. *Some* races, out of all
the starry sky, will have the temperament and inclination and discipline
to avoid it - hiveminds, for example.
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