Re: Doomsday vs Diaspora

From: Greg Jordan (jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 16:01:40 MDT

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    Information patterns can't be threatened in a physical sense?

    gej
    resourcesoftheworld.org
    jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu

    On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Jef Allbright wrote:

    > Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:07:04 -0700
    > From: Jef Allbright <jef@jefallbright.net>
    > Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
    > To: extropians@extropy.org
    > Subject: Re: Doomsday vs Diaspora
    >
    > "It's funny how much these Earth creatures think about threats and
    > counter-threats, offense and defense, conquest and expansion and the like.
    > Are they really afraid that someone is going to steal their IP?"
    >
    > (IP can be loosely and limitedly translated as Intellectual Property, a
    > concept not well understood in the early 21st century. A more accurate
    > translation would convey the idea of a pattern of information,
    > self-referentially directed and evolving, intertwingled with all others, and
    > would invoke the ironic humor intended by the speaker at the thought that
    > such an Information Pattern could be "threatened" in any physical sense.)
    >
    > - Jef
    >
    > Greg Jordan wrote:
    > > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
    > >
    > >> That they are not here yet, after at least 700 million years of our
    > >> biosphere being detectable, means that most likely the density of
    > >> dangerous predatory civilizations is very low, and our feeble
    > >> light-speed radio won't alarm anybody within the time that it will
    > >> take us to develop our own expansion wave.
    > >>
    > >> Radiate away, the bad guys are not there.
    >
    >
    >



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