[ExI] Atlantic article on human reengineering with very strong reactions

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:25:42PM +0100, Stefano Vaj wrote:
> 2012/3/13 Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se>
> 
> > And of course, the only long-term sustainable approach is to become a
> > solid state civilization...
> >
> 
> What's wrong with liquid-state civilisations? :-)

Physics of computation requires a rigid lattice in
order to maximize the rate of Ops/J/volume.

Liquid may be useful in cooling, but even then there's
a trade-off (reduction in functionality concentration,
introduction of vibrations distorting circuit geometry
and contaminating species (think graphene electronics
and spintronics).

Some like it radiant-cooled glowing hot, some hard and old, millikelvin cold.