[extropy-chat] What Human Minds Will Eventually Do

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:49:19PM +0100, Russell Wallace wrote:

> (I should clarify, because numbers sometimes take on a life of their own, that
> the 1 gram for a civilization figure is for mass-optimized static storage in
> transit, not actually operating computronium, though this is an aside, not part
> of the current argument.)

The exact figure doesn't matter. Whether it's kg or Tg, it's all
the same, given the resources of an entire stellar system.
 
> My answer is: I will. No matter how much you argue that we should value sitting
> at home shuffling bits over going out to convert the wasted mass/energy of the
> universe into people living worthwhile lives, the empirical fact is that I do
> place far higher value on the latter, and so do a lot of other people. If the

You're not alone.

> means become available, we will go out to colonize other star systems. Of
> course there's no guarantee that the means will become available, but as long

Once self-replicating systems are outside of this gravity well,
the chain letter is on its way.

> as there are people who want to do so, the lack of desire argument is null and
> void.

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