<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
Sounds good. Multiple launches is a good way of getting redundancy.
In our sketch we assumed a 30g payload, but we think it is easy to
get down to the mg range. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Looks like we are on the same page here. Once I am done with my current project, we should meet and put some lasers together.</div><div><br></div><div>I am wondering what would be the ticket costs on these starships. Probably a huge part of mission costs would be IP related, inherent in the knowledge needed for transforming the target into computronium. You could contribute e.g. by buying a copy of the nanobacteria blueprints for making solar cells and piggyback your mind on the blueprint. You could encrypt yourself and the blueprints into one entity, in effect becoming a local expert on solar cells, thus assuring you would be in great demand in the growing star colony, and you would be copied widely.</div><div><br></div><div>Would it be better to pay for encoding a copy of you on the ship itself or is it going to be cheaper to send a copy by laser once a receiver station is built by the colonizer swarm?</div><div><br></div><div>Rafał</div></div>
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