<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 5:02 PM, Ben Zaiboc </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:ben@zaiboc.net" target="_blank">ben@zaiboc.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">>></div>My 2 guesses to explain The Great
Filter are we are the first (somebody has to be) or the robots
fall victim to something like electronic drug abuse.</font></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><i><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div>A third possibility is that the aliens are all over the place, we just can't detect them.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I think that's very unlikely.</div> </font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div><i>A combination of nanotechnology and
uploading could mean civilisations simply shrink until they no
longer have any detectable footprint</i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">With Drexler style nanotechnology it would be easy to make galaxy sized engineered structures and its hard to believe absolutely nobody ever decided to do it. Even a uploaded mind is connected with physics, the richer his virtual world is the more computations are needed to be made, and the only way t o perform a computation is by way of matter and energy with can only come from our non-virtual world. We should be able to see the upload civilization do that but we don't. It's odd.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div><br></font><div><br></div></div></div></div>