From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 08:51:24 MDT
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Yeah, but the premise is that if you don't pay for stealth, some Evil
> Thing will come and eat/terminate you. It's worth being inefficient if
Why? We're too young for the nutritional value be distinguishable from
unprocessed raw stardirt -- mature cultures do better here, but then, they
have very large and sharp teeth.
Blighting a young civilization might be cost-effective, but then, the
vulnerability window is very short.
> you have to be, to avoid that. But obviously if you can attain the
> same end while being thrifty...
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