Charlie Stross, in his novel `Accelerando', points out that
intelligences who think faster than us wait, subjectively,
longer for radio messages to go back and forth than we.
If they think 100 times as fast, an 8 year wait (which does not quite
simulate a radio message to and from the nearest star, which is 4.3
light years away) becomes, subjectively, an 800 year wait.
If they think a million times as fast ...
Perhaps all civilizations that do not destroy themselves through war
or destroy their ecology develop fast thinking machines ... perhaps
that is the answer to the Fermi Paradox ...
You can postulate information transfer faster than light, but that is
not yet seen in reality.
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