[extropy-chat] Dark matter and ET

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

spike wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
>>bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
>>
>>Even so, what use are stars?
>>
>>And with life 3.85 billion years old on Earth, and the Milky Way 100,000
>>lightyears across, how likely is it that more than one intelligent species
>>arises in a galaxy before the first species takes over the whole galaxy?
>>
>>--
>>Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
> 
> 
> Unlikely indeed, unless they are keeping a few percent of them
> untouched just to see what will evolve there.

Possible.  But certainly unfriendly (small 'f').

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence