From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 17:35:59 MDT
Wei Dai wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:04:16PM -0400, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
>>I'll be damned. David Brin was right. (See "Heaven's Reach").
>
> Sorry, you'll have to spell out what you mean. I haven't read "Heaven's
> Reach", and given that it's the conclusion of a set of two trilogies which
> I was not able to get through the first book of, I don't think I will be
> reading it any time soon.
In "Heaven's Reach", Brin postulated an "Embrace of Tides" theory where
successively more advanced species like to live next to ever-sharper
gravitational gradients. (Why? Don't ask me.) He had his Transcendents
living next to (or perhaps it was within) the event horizons of black holes.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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