Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>As it is, given that at least one in a thousand mortal races would be
>disciplined enough to avoid a Singularity entirely - hiveminds and the
>like - and spread with Slow Zone tech across the galaxies, I can only
>assume that the first Singularity to notice their radio emissions grabs
>them and leaves. This would seem to bode well for us, as the simplest
>explanation would seem to be altruistic (Compact?) motives.
>
>But then why haven't we been contacted by our local self-reproducing
>Observer nanobot? Or if races are "cleaned up" and exterminated, why
>haven't we been destroyed? And if the Powers don't interfere at all,
>why aren't the mortal remnants developing normally?
Maybe they know they can safely wait a bit long before doing anything.
Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/ RWJF Health Policy Scholar FAX: 510-643-8614140 Warren Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 510-643-1884 after 8/99: Assist. Prof. Economics, George Mason Univ.