"Weaver, Evan A." <WeaverEA@itrcorporation.com> writes:
> Since we are looking for SIs, what if all the SIs are busy looking for super
> super intelligences, and those are looking for really super super
> intelligences, and those are... Does anyone see any reason why this would
> have to stop somewhere?
You can only cram so much information into a system like the universe - there are upper bounds on the bandwidth, memory capacity and processing speed possible.
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