[extropy-chat] Dark matter and ET

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Damien Sullivan wrote:
> 
> As for Eliezer's idea of stars really being information nodes: given that the
> model, of stars being big clumps of hydrogen and contaminants which collapse
> under gravity until they fuse, gives predictions which match observations
> pretty damn well, I'd be leary of assuming anything else is going on.  Life
> should be postulated for things we can't explain through simple physics and
> chemistry, such as persistent oxygen atmospheres.

The "CCHI" in my message stands for "Close Captioned for the Humor Impaired" - 
I was joking.

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