[ExI] Slow thinking

[spike]

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Dennis May
Subject: Re: [ExI] Slow thinking

 

Stefano Vaj wrote:

 

> Yes. My personal answer to Fermi's paradox is much 

> more along the lines of Wolfram's.

 

>http://www.marcuschown.com/kelvinsample.htm

 

>Dennis May

 

 

>.For, if any ET civilisation contacted us, says Wolfram, what could it
trade with us? In his view, all it could say is "Here are some useful
programs we have found in the computational universe - what have you found?"

 

 

We have found 47 Mersenne primes and 47 perfect numbers.  Those will be
universal indicators of how a civilization chooses to waste its computing
resources.  

 

spike

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