From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 11:55:00 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
Subject: Re: Meta-Foxes (was: Fermi Paradox)
>
...I'm not sure I understand the analogy.
My guess: We're the fox, the rabbits are the uneaten stars we see all
around us, and the metafoxes are the supposed destroyers of
colonizers?...
If that is the point of the analogy I missed it too.
Humans have rescued the life on this planet from
universal extinction. The nearby stars might have
planets with carbon that is already mostly coal
and the life thereon nearly dead. It is our sacred
duty as technologically capable beings, to get there
with our nanoprobes, determine if the case requires
our help and if so, start digging out that coal and oil
and burning it, forthwith. Every moment we hesitate,
more potential lives are being nonlived.
spike
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