[ExI] Slow thinking

[Tomasz Rola]

On Sat, 1 Oct 2011, spike wrote:

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> .  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.spike
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> Hmm, I can do better than that.
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> The reason why the cosmic sphere is quiet is a reason analogous to why
> everyone here has online friends to which we tap out messages regularly, why
> most of us here have friended strangers on Facebook, but none of us have a
> pen pal in Africa.  The value of the information we get from the pen pal
> wouldn't be worth the effort to keep the dialog going.
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> spike

Well, for some hard to understand reason, a number of people here assumes 
that staying inside closed information system and gossiping for ethernity 
is better than going around. And this is proposed as a future for entities 
much more clever than humans. Frankly, if I had only gossiping awaiting me 
for the next bazillion years, I would consider pulling the plug from 
myself at once, before I turn into incoherent babbling cyberidiot or 
before I come to repeating same things over and over in a trillion years 
long loop.

On the other hand: communications and transport costs between America and 
Europe are prohibitive for cockroaches (there are all kinds of barriers 
here - cockroach endurance over the ocean, not enough innovation, not 
much interest etc). But even if one of us boards a plane and comes to the 
other place, what would we tell to those other cockroaches? What would 
we tell to our own ones?

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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