[ExI] Fermi Paradox and Transcension

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 15:05:40 UTC 2012


On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 15:03, Keith Henson wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:00 AM,  Anders Sandberg<anders at aleph.se>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/09/2012 11:19, BillK wrote:
>> Cell phones have come fairly close.  Even the Amish use them.  Can you
>> think of a culture that has rejected them?
>
> I know people who reject them. And I am pretty confident some monastic
> orders refuse them.

Perhaps a more apt comparison would be indoor plumbing. I think the
rate of acceptance of that is well above 99%.

-Kelly



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