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