RE: Another Take on the Fermi Paradox

From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Tue Dec 24 2002 - 14:08:06 MST


> Mark Waser <mwaser@booksintl.com> wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know of any good rebuttals to the "where are the
> Von Neumann
> > > Probes?" quandary?
> >
> > My take on it is that they are here but they are sufficiently
> advanced that
> > they remain successfully hidden from us.
>
> Unless they are sessile, this implies that they also know some
> physics that we don't know.

It would be very surprising if a superintelligent being did not know some
physics that we don't know.

Our current physics is not even internally consistent, so it seems very
unlikely that it's the last word on physics...

ben



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