From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 11:34:00 MDT
Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
> 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.
Well, yes, but we are talking M-Brains here. Evil Things(tm) predating
on M-Brains is like humans preying on animals: As Harvey said, meat has
all the things a body needs in the right proportion to go on predating.
The M-Brain, like a ruminant, and the plants it feeds on, has gone
through the trouble to photosynthesize all that solar energy, and refine
materials from raw dirt into highly structured and useful compounds
(like meat and blubber).
>
> Blighting a young civilization might be cost-effective, but then, the
> vulnerability window is very short.
Unless you graduate to "Potential Evil Thing but Just Not Motivated That
Way", you will always be vulnerable...
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