[ExI] for the fermi paradox fans

Keith Henson hkeithhenson at gmail.com
Sun Jun 8 01:37:13 UTC 2014


On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:00 AM,  BillK <pharos at gmail.com>> wrote:

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> I speculate along the same direction as Keith. The intelligence
> speedup makes the outside world really boring. They live in virtual
> worlds where they are gods and entertain themselves to death.

The speed up is the result of an arms race.  In an uploaded world you
want to be as smart as you can manage, and to some extent that mean
fast, or at least faster then the competition seeking status.

It's like the rise in clock speeds for PCs.  If other things had not
stopped it, the market would have driven them to perhaps a 100 GHz by
now.

Keith



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