From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 1999 - 21:17:22 MDT
Darin Sunley wrote:
>
> You forget, negative results count in science too. Even if Seti@Home
> firmly establishes that all the radio noise on whatever frequencies
> they're scanning is meaningless noise, this at least gives us some firm
> lower bounds regarding the probable distribution of technological
> civilizations.
Absolutely, positively right! I wish I'd thought of that. Yes,
absolutely. We may *think* that there's nobody to talk to Out There,
but confirming that theory is an absolutely legitimate scientific
endeavor - the hypothesis has to be tested.
The Singularity is not a religious principle. Ergo, the idea of
extraterrestrial signals cannot be blasphemous.
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