[ExI] Fermi question, was is a FTL drive a dream . . .

[BillK]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> Upper limits of expansion speed seem rather stretchable, since once you
> Dyson even one star the energy to accelerate macroscale probes to high
> velocities is cheap, and the risk of destruction of probes due to collisions
> can be handled by building a lot of probes. The current name for the project
> at FHI is "Spamming the universe".
>
>


And we are supposed to believe that a civ with million times speedup
super-intelligent AIs will decide that this is reasonable behaviour?
Turn the whole universe into their version of Miami beachfront?

I'll have to redefine what 'super-intelligent' means.


BillK