From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 03:47:36 MDT
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> A solar system dominant Matrioshka Brain may dictate that interstellar
> colonization is forbidden. Sub-solar system dominant Jupiter Brains
A Yudkovskian system could do that, but there are reasons to believe the
traversal of trajectory through development phase space towards such a
system is exceedingly improbable. In fact attempted traversal of even an
infinitesimal fraction of such trajectory is very likely to backfire,
bringing you something indistinguishable from the Blight.
Assuming the russian doll thing is an ecology, it will of course be
diverse, and feel the pressure to expand its biological niche.
I'm not sure how we're supposed to be getting that amount of control, as
even now he have (brutally dumb) hardware leaving our system, and many
people here are getting wet at thoughts of going to space, including
founding pioneer front of the diaspora. I'm not gung ho for diaspora, but
it does have its attractive sides.
> may determine that only rare opportunities for bifurcative
> reproduction are useful.
A stochastically driven process sampling behaviour space will eventually
fork, and the tendency to fork will be sticky to its progeny.
-- Eugen* Leitl leitl
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