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<div class=yiv1768445404MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Dennis May<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ExI] Slow thinking</SPAN></div></DIV></DIV>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1768445404MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Stefano <SPAN class=yiv1768445404mark>Vaj</SPAN> wrote:</SPAN></div></DIV>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1768445404MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">> Yes. My personal answer to Fermi's paradox is much </SPAN></div></DIV>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1768445404MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt" lang=EN-GB>>…For, if any ET civilisation contacted us, says Wolfram, what could it trade with us? In his view, all it could say is "Here are some useful programs we have found in the computational universe - what have you found?"</SPAN></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1768445404MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'" lang=EN-GB>We have found 47 Mersenne primes and 47 perfect numbers. Those will be universal indicators of how a civilization chooses to waste its computing resources. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1768445404MsoNormal>What about a Facebook for the universe?</div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1768445404MsoNormal>Regards,</div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1768445404MsoNormal>Dan<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></div></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>