> Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> >...You can't have it both ways: if life is common but always
> > destroys itself with gray goo, then we must explain the apparent
> > absence of the latter rather than using it to explain the absence
> > of the former....
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> That having been said, I doubt spike's Gray Filter scenario. I can see
> many races, even the majority, destroying themselves that way. But zero
> survivors? Not even one in a thousand? I don't believe it....
eliezer, i do hope you are right my friend... {8^D spike