Yes--if They don't *want* to talk to us. But we might be interesting in
some way. Btw, crypto is actually more effective at making "noise" than
compression, because what to compression is a tiny inefficiency is to crypto
a chink in the armor--the crypto guys are more intent on the noiselikeness.
>Shit, you're right. If you wished to get really bizarre, you could say that
>the dirt under your house is actually an uploaded civilization in statis
>with their molecular patterns stored in an organization of dirt molecules
Right, except they aren't in stasis. If you look
at the amount of *raw* information processing that's going on in that dirt,
and assume that processing is being *used*, it's more than the *useful*
processing going on in our civilizations' brains and computers, I think.
(I'm just not sure how many millimeters or miles you need to dig to make
this true.)
--Steve
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