Re: Doomsday vs Diaspora.

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Sat Apr 26 2003 - 00:38:11 MDT

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    "Mitchell Porter" <mitchtemporarily@hotmail.com>

    > It seems thinkable that my species could be the seed of a cosmic
    > civilization capable of spreading indefinitely into the
    > universe. But if that happens, the future population of
    > the civilization born in this biosphere will be orders of
    > magnitude greater than the number of all humans who have
    > lived so far.

    I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Our decedents will be astronomically
    more intelligent than we are but there may not be more of them. The amount
    of information you can send down a wire is increasing even faster than
    Moore’s Law, when communication between two minds keeps getting better
    there comes a point where there is only one mind not two. I don’t know how
    many individuals there will be, the only reason to have more than one is the
    slow speed of light but you could cram in a hell of a lot of brain power
    into a space before that becomes significant.

             John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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