From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 12:20:11 MDT
If I was a benevolent superciv I would invade a conventional biosphere
gently, by invading their infoprocessing systems with nano, thus
cloaking my presence/activities. I would then upload them in situ,
reclaim all available material resources while allowing them to ascend
at their subjective native rate in an artificial reality sandbox. They
wouldn't notice a thing out of the ordinary.
Snicker-snee. There goes that Occam's razor. Too bad.
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky writes:
> 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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