Re: Hole in a box

From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 21:43:26 MST


Anders Sandberg wrote:

> The breakpoint is at x=3.13e39 bit/kg, I guess around degenerate matter.
>
> So it seems that we would expect that hot or high-density civilizations
> would want to gather as much matter as possible for storage, while cool
> civilizations with lower memory density would rather burn their matter
> to power their computers. So given these assumptions the really advanced
> civilisations using nuclear storage would likely want to imitate cosmic
> dark matter... Anders Sandberg

Honest to god, Anders! If Extropia minted its own money,
we would put you on the 20 dollar bill.

spike



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