Re: Fermi "Paradox"

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 20:04:16 MDT

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    Wei Dai wrote:
    > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 07:55:57AM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
    >
    >>Marvin Minsky suggested to Dyson ~30+ years ago at one of
    >>the U.S.-USSR SETI conferences that advanced civilizations
    >>would seek to approach the coolest temperature possible --
    >>ideally the background temperature of the universe (~3 deg. K) [1].
    >>This is because thermodynamically it is the most efficient.
    >
    > As I've mentioned before on this list, the coolest heat sink available
    > is not intergalactic space, but black holes. The implication is that
    > advanced civilizations should live near black holes. See
    > http://www.weidai.com/black-holes.txt.

    I'll be damned. David Brin was right. (See "Heaven's Reach"). 

    -- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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