[ExI] von Neumann probes (was Re: fermi paradox)

[Bryan Bishop]

On Saturday 08 December 2007, spike wrote:
> Oh OK ja.  I am back to trying to imagine it.  I can see viral
> information, where a civilization tries to convince another
> civilization to remake itself in the image of the sender.

Which reminds me to link to:

Communication with alien intelligence (Marvin Minsky)
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/AlienIntelligence.html

Open source contact message (from Paul Fitzpatrick, another MIT fellow):
http://cosmicos.sourceforge.net/


- Bryan