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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-01-07 18:59, Kelly Anderson
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:12 AM,
Kevin Freels <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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want to live faster unless I can also exceed light speed
by a few orders of magnitude. If anything, I'd like to
slow my clock a bit and observe the universe through a
time-lapse. <br>
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<div>The only way to successfully do that my friend is to
put yourself on a spaceship travelling at VERY near the
speed of light away from every other known living being.
If you slow yourself down intellectually, you will be
non-competitive an any kind of darwinian sense, unless you
are travelling so fast that you can't be caught.</div>
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<div>There was an interesting article on this asking if
criminals could outrun cops. I don't recall where I read
it at the moment, but you should read that if you want to
get a sense of what you'd be in for.</div>
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That is likely Stuart Armstrong's paper ‘Outrunning the Law: the
Ease of Intergalactic Colonisation Poses Unique Challenges for
Star-spanning Civilizations’ given at <a
href="http://www.bis-space.com/2012/10/17/7183/extraterrestrial-liberty-what-is-freedom-beyond-the-earth">http://www.bis-space.com/2012/10/17/7183/extraterrestrial-liberty-what-is-freedom-beyond-the-earth</a><br>
<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrUWkfeJABY&list=UU_qqMD08PFrDfPREoBEL6IQ&index=8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrUWkfeJABY&list=UU_qqMD08PFrDfPREoBEL6IQ&index=8</a><br>
The paper should appear this year in JBIS. <br>
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The answer is basically that velocity wins over sufficiently long
distances: I can give you a head start of a million years, yet if I
travel faster than you even fractionally I will catch up with you
eventually. <br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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