On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 6:27 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can think of 3 possibilities: >> 1) They don't need such constructs because intelligent life, other than >> that which exists on earth, never existed in the observable universe. >> 2) They don't need such constructs because intelligent life has existed >> in the observable universe before but they all encounter a calamity of some >> sort when they get to about our level of technological development. >> 3) They don't need such constructs because intelligent life always gains >> control of their own emotional control panel and goes into a stagnant high >> pleasure but low energy and low intelligence state forever. >> And it could be that #2 and #3 are the same thing > > > *>>But they might* *4) Build an immersive simulation in which they could explore all possible > worlds. That should keep them occupied a while.* *If in addition to having the computational capacity to build a super powerful mind you're going to also build a computational environment that is complex enough for that mine to find interesting then you're going to need even more energy to run all that computation. That's why you're going to need a Dyson Sphere. And yet, even though they should be easy to spot, we don't find even a hint of them anywhere in the observable universe nor any other evidence of cosmic level engineering. * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> cle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2eJ1LoXrJjwuTvhy5aToGxtAmQZfdaC895jmRGGfvSVg%40mail.gmail.com.
