From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 21:23:56 MDT
Steve wrote
> It's sort of for this reason that pounds (mass) being consumed doesn't
> explain the behavior (non-foxiness) we're trying to explain.
I think that it's the non-existence of the meta-foxes which is
the issue. We're the foxes, and I am pretty sure that in Robin's
nice analogy, compute-resources (e.g. planets and suns) are the
rabbits.
Spike wrote
> Eliezer [wrote]
> > ...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.
Hmm. From what you write next, it seems that you
are in complete synch (so far as I can see) with
what Robin is saying.
> Humans have rescued the life on this planet from
> universal extinction.
Extremely thought provoking, as usual. Let me see:
you are talking about all the life that's now dead
beneath our feet which only human beings are
liberating again? Excellent! Turning dead dinosaurs
into more people (or SI's) is a good thing.
> 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.
Well, I hope that you are either being a bit jocular,
or you really just mean liberating the energy to turn
it into life. (Well, okay, I do admit that it's fun
to have fun at the expense of the Greens.)
> Every moment we hesitate, more potential lives are
> being nonlived.
That's the spirit! The true spirit of humankind!
Forward!
Lee
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