From: Nicholas Bostrom (bostrom@mail.ndirect.co.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 05 1997 - 10:54:53 MDT
Forrest Bishop wrote:
> It takes much less effort to colonize a new star system than to
> obliterate
> every competing intelligence or SI in one particular system. Once such
> a
> colony is established, it is much easier to defend it than to attack
> it.
...which supports the claim that the smart stategy is to prevent the
rivals from arising, here on earth, in the first place.
Nicholas Bostrom
http://www.hedweb.com/nickb
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