I don't understand the question. I'm attempting to make further deductions from the self-sampling assumption, as used in the "Doomsday Argument". Please could you explain what you think I'm saying, so I can attempt a sensible reply to your comment?
On 31 August 2014 07:38, John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> wrote: > Liz: > and HOW ON EARTH (verbatim: this one) would you know the entire World? Not > to ask: what would you call 'populous'? Is a trillion 'many'? > Please do ot quote Adam and Eve, Adam started out to be alone with a spare > rib. And they(?) made the entire crowd. > JM > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 7:48 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Actually I'm surprised that there are *no* "populous" universes anywhere >> in the string landscape / level 4 multiverse (if such exist). Or perhaps >> it's more likely that there are, but their proportion is so much lower than >> our sort that the chances are still better to find oneself in a universe >> where the life of civilisations is either nasty, brutish and short, or >> involves us evolving into an "Childhood's End" style Overmind. >> >> >> On 30 August 2014 08:25, John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Russell: in your note >>> >>> >>> >>> *Yes, it does. And that might explain the Fermi paradox. It doesn't rule >>> vastly distributed "hive minds", though. Perhaps our future is to be >>> assilimated with the Borg.* >>> >>> isn't there an *"out" * missing in the 2nd line after 'rule', or >>> not? >>> >>> John M >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:01:38AM +1200, LizR wrote: >>>> > > Yes, I am hoping for a gradual decline ... what does the DDA have >>>> to say >>>> > about other sentient species? If, say, the Andromedans were going to >>>> > colonise their entire galaxy, we'd almost certainly have been born >>>> one of >>>> > them. Does it therefore predict that there will be no vastly populous >>>> > conscious race in any part of this universe or any other? >>>> > >>>> >>>> Yes, it does. And that might explain the Fermi paradox. It doesn't >>>> rule vastly distributed "hive minds", though. Perhaps our future is to >>>> be assilimated with the Borg. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >>>> Principal, High Performance Coders >>>> Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au >>>> University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >>>> >>>> Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret >>>> (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) >>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> 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 post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
