[extropy-chat] The Drake Equation and Spatial Proximity

[Brian Atkins]

Robert Bradbury wrote:
> 
> It has little to do with the P.D.  It has much more to do with the fact 
> that
> it is a waste of time and energy to attempt "talking" to a pre KT-I
> civilization when you can wait 10-50 years and talk to something much more
> "interesting".
> 

But that's not a very nice stance is it? During such a waiting period many many 
millions/billions of intelligences in that new civ will die.

Just as there are folks around today who want to help out wild animals, I expect 
there would be folks in a many post-singularity civs who want to "save the 
sentients" from involuntary death and other indignities throughout the rest of 
the universe. All it would take is one of them from one post-S civ designing and 
launching one self replicating probe that would then spread throughout all 
galaxies over time to survey systems and then introduce itself and its 
potentialities to the local intelligences.
-- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/