From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Mar 10 1999 - 10:02:27 MST
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:
> I can't speak to whether or not this is a Steady State Universe, but I
> would like to note that this *would* solve the Great Filter Paradox.
> Even if the Powers expand at lightspeed, or faster, or MUCH faster,
> there would still, always and eternally, be islands with no
> Singularities for an arbitrary distance.
Hmm...? I don't have the time right now, but there is an argument
*against* the steady-state theory based on the paucity of aliens in
Tipler & Barrow's _The Anthropic Cosmological Principle_. They seem to
reach the exact opposite conclusion than you.
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