re: low profile

Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Mon, 14 Oct 96 14:03:26 PDT

Forrest Bishop writes:
>>With the competition this fierce, the best places for the long term
>>may be the less desireable real estate- the dark matter galactic
>
>This would only buy you a little time. You really need to advance
>your tech as fast as possible.
>
>[[Your ~10^20 (say) probes are very small. In the systems they
>reach, they do not engage in splashy engineering projects (above the
>planetary level, which is above our current detection threshold).

Under this scenario every last bit of everything is going to soon be
colonized. There is no where to hide. You must prepare to compete.

Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/