[extropy-chat] fermi's paradox: m/d approach

[Dirk Bruere]

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From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] fermi's paradox: m/d approach


> 
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Dirk Bruere wrote:
> >
> > > What would ET want from us?
> > > Science is pretty much irrelevent.
> >
> > If the ET is intelligent, chances are it's also curious.
> 
> I'll keep repeating it until it sinks in...
> MBrains can have:
> - 100 billion telescopes the diameter of the moon
>   (plenty of information to process)
> - The ability to simulate all human thought that has been
>   done since Australopithecines in ~0.25 microseconds.
>   (And that is probably conservative since it doesn't
>    take into account the quality of thought of pre-modern
>    humans or the population bottlenecks that humans
>    probably went through.)
> 
>    [Figures are back-of-the envelope of course but provide
>     a way of thinking about the scaling that most people
>     simply fail to grasp.]
> 
> You can satisfy your curiosity in significantly less
> time than it takes to go to lunch.

Which is why we are being left alone until we become interesting.
And 'interesting' does not refer to universally discoverable things.
 
> > Lets face it, what else could be the motivation to build
> > an MBrain ?
> 
> Figuring out how to survive?
 
Surviving other MBrains most likely.

Dirk

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