From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 05:54:29 MDT
At 01:35 AM 8/15/2003 -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> > > > http://hanson.gmu.edu/filluniv.pdf
> > >
> > >As an aside, Robin's excellent analysis assumes a space-capable
> > >civilization whose main objective is expansion and colonisation. Like a
> > >Star Trek type of civ. It doesn't help with the problem of WHY a
> > >post-singularity civilization composed almost entirely of old, immortal
> > >beings already in possession of virtually unlimited resources would want
> > >to expand.
> >
> > My analysis is of a selection effect operating on motivations. Given
> > a diversity of motivations, I look at what evolutionary selection on
> > such motivations produces in terms of behavior at the leading edge of
> > spatial expansion.
>
>I am not at all sure that such an evolutionary analysis is applicable in any
>meaningful way. Did you choose the "fitness" criteria in a way that escapes
>being circular?
I see what strategies are left at the leading edge, assuming many diverse
strategies are tried internally. "Fit" is having many descendants at the
leading edge.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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