[ExI] SETI for Post Singularity Civs

[William Flynn Wallace]

​the night sky looks uninhabited very nicely, namely that it IS uninhabited
because we are the first, after all somebody had to be.

  John K Clark

What happens when a group of individuals are perfectly adapted to their
environment?  No progress, right?  Mutations maybe be dealt with like
chickens deal with obviously different chicks - kill them.

Look at the AmerIndians, the sub-Saharan Africans, the South American
Indians, and others.  Would they still be living the same life if they
hadn't been disturbed by European explorers?  A good bet is "yes".​  Why
couldn't a culture exist that just keeps doing the same thing for millions
of years because it keeps on working?  Humans have a drive to invent and
create and no other species on our planet has it.

Maybe alien cultures are just Type B, laid back, content, no inevitable
population pressure, etc.

bill w
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