Re: Hacking the Kernal of the Universe

Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Mon, 21 Oct 96 10:15:56 PDT


Chris Hind writes:
>Perhaps this is the answer to our Great Filter thread? Maybe sometime in our
>near future we discover how to create a baby universe and we enter it and
>break off from the rest of the universe which is why there is no one out
>there to communicate with.

If 99/100 civilizations did this with *all* their members (with no
minority that would rather explore our universe), that would only
explain 2 of the roughly 20 orders of magnitude of the great filter.