[ExI] SETI for Post Singularity Civs

[Bryan Bishop]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:48 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> It would only take a few million years to spread Neumann probes
> throughout our galaxy. So advanced ET either hasn't appeared in our
>

I saw math somewhere about relative speed-ups and head-starts by just
having a single year of a head start, versus 10 years, and versus 100
years. So in the absence of having a working von Neumann probe, perhaps
using literally anything else secures victory, especially if it will take
you millions of years to make anything better. (Hopefully, kinematic
self-replication will not take us more than 100 years to figure out.)

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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