[ExI] Immeasurable hubris

[Tomaz Kristan]

What one has to do, to conquer the at least nearby Universe, is to write
down and run some computer code, perhaps not a very long code at all. And
then just wait and watch all of the above happening automatically.

Light speed and slower probes permutating everything, from your body to
rocks.

What code? I don't know, just as the majority is clueless about any complex
code I am pretty clueless  about that one.

Except that it must be possible and that it is likely in our grasp.






On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> , 5/9/2014 7:54 PM:
>
>
> ### What I had in mind is not necessarily killing the cute young puppy
> civilizations, although a supermind dwelling in the darkness might see this
> is as entirely unobjectionable. Hypervelocity objects striking all planets
> bearing monocellular life, sufficient to boil the top layer of rock, once
> every billion years, should do the trick bloodlessly by preventing life
> from ever getting close to generating a civilization.
>
> Maybe ours is just running late :)
>
>
> If the system is sloppy enough to miss a few biospheres like ours, it is
> not stable enough to act as an explanation of the Fermi question:
>
> http://www.seti.ac.uk/dir_setinam2013/posters/posters_NAM2013_anders_sandberg.pdf
> (see the question 2 section to the right).
>
>
>
> Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford
> University
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