From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 09:07:32 MDT
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 07:45:01AM -0700, Jef Allbright wrote:
> I expect optimized communicaton would tend to be indistinguishable from
> low-level noise to those who don't have the key. Also, in contrast to those
A much better claim than Greg Jordan's "lightspeed is too slow". Not like
there are known physically possible alternatives, Greg, and good reasons why
there wouldn't be.
> who feel that advanced civilizations will continue to expand to take over
> ever increasing volumes of physical space, I suspect there's very little to
> be gained by moving a lot of mass around, and that advanced civilizations
> will tend to grow in complexity in ways that we are unlikely to be able to
You don't need to move lots of mass around far to take over more mass. Send a
seed and have it grow. But more controlled mass means more energy collection
and more computation, or in a different regime more mass which is 'alive'.
-xx- Damien X-)
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