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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> 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<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Stefano <span class=mark>Vaj</span> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>> Yes. My personal answer to Fermi's paradox is much <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>> more along the lines of Wolfram's.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><a href="http://www.marcuschown.com/kelvinsample.htm">http://www.marcuschown.com/kelvinsample.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Dennis May</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>…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?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>spike</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>