J. R. Molloy writes:
> We really can't *know* if a friendly strain of bacteria is likely to eventually
> evolve into friendly people without actually conducting an experiment along
> those lines. Plainly, such an experiment with artificial digital life forms
> would take minutes instead of millenia, so that's not a problem.
You must be running one of these evaporating black hole computers. I want one!
Seriously, did you ever do a back of the envelope? You need a lot more
than a few minutes, unless your starting point is way above the
urslime.
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