[ExI] taxonomy for fermi paradox fans:

[Giovanni Santostasi]

I agree, the slow time idea makes no sense at all as a solution of the
Fermi's paradox.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:37 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
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>> > Consider it from the viewpoint of a person who is alive today and lives
>> to a singularity event or is revived from cryonic suspension into a fast
>> simulation.  It looks possible to do a million to one speedup
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>  I agree, and you're probably being conservative.
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> > If the population moves into a fast simulated environment,
>> the subjective time to get to the stars becomes even more ridiculous
>> than it is now.
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> ET doesn't need to travel to the stars, ET just needs to send one Von
> Neumann probe to one star, and then almost instantly from a cosmic
> perspective (less than 50 million years, perhaps much less) the entire
> Galaxy would be unrecognizable. And it's not as if this would take some
> huge commitment on the part of ET's civilization, in fact even a individual
> could easily do it. If Von Neumann probes are possible at all, and I can't
> think why they wouldn't be, then they're going to be dirt cheap, you buying
> a bag of peanuts would be a greater drag on your financial resources.
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>> > I am prompted to think about this as a non fatal reason we don't
>> see any aliens or their works.
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> I am having difficulty grasping the argument that the reason we can't see
> any changes that ET made to the universe with even our biggest telescopes
> is because ET can make changes a million times faster than we can.
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>  John K Clark
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