On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Postbiota are evolutionary successors of us/our machines, living in deep > space as native habitat. They will self-select to create a relativistic > expanding pioneer critter wavefront, that tranforms any stellar system > it passes by. By changing the dead dirt into self it prevents possible > advent of future life (and is difficult to observe, due to relativistic > speed and observer-extinguishing/emergence-preventing side effect (anthropic > principle)). Being darwinian machines these will self-optimize until they > reach ultimate or omega fitness regime at very high diversity, after > which only change is random brownian spatiotemporal fitness oscillations. > > This kinda negates them being stranglers-in-the-crib of protolife and > killers of subexpansive life (as us-current, for instance). In my book.
Hey, I want to write like that! I didn't understand a damn word, of course. And even though I think it's just a crock of high-sounding crap that leads no where, it'd be damn cool to string together words like that. Cheeni
