[ExI] Fermi's Paradoxical Politburo

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Fri Mar 15 19:03:23 UTC 2013


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Eugen Leitl  wrote:
> Amish show some selective adoption of technology, and of course
> not everybody returns back into the fold after rumpschpringe,
> though most do.
>
> No population of agents can be uniform, and no policy can
> be 100% enforced. As such sustained containment is arbitrarily
> improbable, especially across population of populations with
> no common point of origin, across deep time.
>

The laws of physics are 100% enforced.

Populations reach size limits where various adventures just become too
expensive for the group to fund. Even feeding the population in some
cases. Interstellar travel is one of the most expensive projects and
requires very large group support.

The way round that objection is to claim that after the Singularity
nano-Santa will provide unlimited resources to all sizes of
populations. But the implications........   Everyone from Hells Angels
to Al-Qaeda has unlimited resources! The Singularity will be a big
upheaval, perhaps the destruction of humanity if that route is
followed.

Survival may only be possible by forming some kind of hive-mind and
ruthlessly incorporating outsiders.
Resistance is futile!  ;)


BillK



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