[extropy-chat] fermi's paradox: m/d approach

[Robert J. Bradbury]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Dirk Bruere wrote:
>
> > What would ET want from us?
> > Science is pretty much irrelevent.
>
> If the ET is intelligent, chances are it's also curious.

I'll keep repeating it until it sinks in...
MBrains can have:
- 100 billion telescopes the diameter of the moon
  (plenty of information to process)
- The ability to simulate all human thought that has been
  done since Australopithecines in ~0.25 microseconds.
  (And that is probably conservative since it doesn't
   take into account the quality of thought of pre-modern
   humans or the population bottlenecks that humans
   probably went through.)

   [Figures are back-of-the envelope of course but provide
    a way of thinking about the scaling that most people
    simply fail to grasp.]

You can satisfy your curiosity in significantly less
time than it takes to go to lunch.

> Lets face it, what else could be the motivation to build
> an MBrain ?

Figuring out how to survive?

R.