Re: >H RE: Present dangers to transhumanism

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@www.aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 06:37:15 MDT


On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

>
> > This seems to fit the paradox of "Why do we still see stars?".
>
> Not really. You don't have to be a Power to colonize the Universe.

No, but others should to my thinking. I can only reach perhaps
four conclusions in thinking about [S]ETI:
  (a) It is very difficult for life to get started and evolve to
      technological civilizations.
  (b) SIs evolve to the point of:
        benevolence|caretaking|indifference|quiescence.
  (c) We are seeing our [local] universe at a *very* unique
      time-point (before the SIs have consumed all the power sources).
  (d) The path to SIs is universally fatal.

Robert



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