Re: Doomsday vs Diaspora

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 23:39:35 MDT

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    Lee observed:
    <<Yes, maybe so.  But then Damien's point still stands:
    nobody's out there watching us now!  Not even some
    restrained types following a Prime Directive.
    Restraining yourself from overrunning everything in
    sight is not competitive, though even Greg Egan doesn't
    appear to realize it in his SF, (speaking of Diaspora).
    Well then, let's get on with it.  The universe has been
    too cold and too dead for far too long a time.
    Lee>>

    Lee, unless Kurzweil, and the rest of the cavalcade of AI gurus are correct;
    the practicality of sending Bracewell probes, however molecular in size, will
    be, as Sir Arthur once stated: The Labor of Centuries. Because interstellar
    travel is possible, does not necessarily make it economically viable, or
    politically correct. This might serve true even for imaginary SIAI's running
    corporations and planets in the next 300 years. Rather, we may go to the next
    1000 closest stars (we being Mr. Roboto) and say "Aw screw it! This is enough
    raw materials for the next 75 millennia, and durn it, there ain't nobody else
    home in the galaxy" (50-100 billion galaxies to go).

    Because there isn't anyone close at hand, does not mean there isn't anyone at
    all. My hunch (unfalsifiable) is that the nature of space-time, as we and
    robot jr. will come to understand it, will be vastly different from what we
    are now able to detect. Articles about multiple universes, will seem passe.'



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