[ExI] Virtual Reality is where the aliens are

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of Henry Rivera
Subject: Re: [ExI] Virtual Reality is where the aliens are

>...I think it's a Prime Directive-type thing. Non-interference and stealth
until a certain level of development is attained...

Sure but why would that apply to *all* of the newly capable civilizations?
We sprayed signals in all directions as soon as we could do it, before we
got any prime directives from anywhere.  If such a directive exists, there
should be rogues here and there. 

>...Or there is some transcendence from this dimension/universe/reality to
another at a certain level of evolution, which is the true "expansion" of
advanced intelligence. I don't mean VR.  -Henry

Sure again, but why would that notion apply to all civilizations everywhere
and everywhen?  We sent out signals before we singularitied out of view or
nanoteched inward or jumped into the next higher dimension or nuked
ourselves or VRed ourselves, before any of the theoretical good or bad
scenarios happened.  We were sending out signals before we even had personal
computers.

There should be other societies that get to about where we are now, then
level out in a comfortable lazy middle age, sending signals both directed
and unintentional, but not bothering to look for replies, perhaps without
the technology to receive or decode.

Once again I am compelled to at least ponder the mind-boggling possibility
that we really are the first ones here.  But there have been earth-like
planets, there have been metals for eons.  I am at a complete loss to
explain why others didn't evolve billions of years ago, and if they did,
where are the indications?  How the hell could they *all* be missing?

spike