[ExI] Slow thinking

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of Keith Henson
...

>...It occurred to me just now that this is an alternative answer to the
Fermi question.  Once intelligent life forms start moving into faster
hardware, it may be that they can't leave their home planet without getting
hopelessly out of touch with whatever is going on... Keith


Excellent Keith.  A solution similar to this was proposed by me about a
decade ago: that distant MBrains do not communicate with us because it isn't
worth it.  They can't get replies back in any reasonable time.  Local
communications are so much more valuable than anything they can invest in
elsewhere that they don't bother.  The closest analogy we have is that the
overwhelming majority of people today spend more time reading stuff on the
internet than we do reading Shakespeare.

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