<div class="gmail_quote">On 5 September 2012 12:38, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 05/09/2012 11:19, BillK wrote:<br>
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IEET have a long article suggesting that the future of all<br>
civilisations is to 'transcend' and live inside black hole domains.<br>
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While I hope this is possible and maybe true, I think there is a deep problem with the hypothesis: it assumes a very strong convergence to this lifestyle. It must be so good that no alien Amish or explorers get left behind to make the universe different. Can you imagine any cultural or technological innovation that would suck in 100% of humans?<br clear="all">
</blockquote></div><br>My objection exactly. For the time being, the most persuasive answer to the Fermi paradox remains for me that offered by Wolfram.<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>