Re: Meta-Foxes (was: Fermi Paradox)

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 22:50:11 MDT

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At 05:14 PM 7/25/03 -0400, you wrote:

>Imagine a field full of slow plump rabbits, munching on grass.
>why don't the meta-foxes
>eat the rabbits?

Why don't the meta-foxes eat grass? Consider the elephant, which doesn't
eat the rabbit- and fox-eating lions but can stomp them if they get in the
way.

(Maybe that's entirely beside the point, though.)

Damien Broderick

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