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My understanding is that the people behind this work are writing a paper on it, which when done will presumably make everything much more explicit than the slid
by gjm11 9y ago
My understanding is that the people behind this work are writing a paper on it, which when done will presumably make everything much more explicit than the slides do.
- kaj_sotala 9y agoYeah, their institute just put out a quarterly update a few days ago: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/quarterly-update-summer-2017/ https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/quarterly-update-summer-2017/ . It mentions their previous Fermi Paradox paper, "That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi’s paradox" ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03394 https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03394 ), and also a "future paper" that sounds like this one: > Anders Sandberg, Stuart Armstrong, and their co-author Milan Cirkovic published a paper outlining a potential strategy for advanced civilizations to postpone computation until the universe is much colder, and thereby producing up to a 10^30 multiplier of achievable computation. This might explain the Fermi paradox, although a future paper from FHI suggests there may be no paradox to explain.