07-05-2012, 07:57 PM | #41 |
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Re: Colony World Frontiers
Yeah that why human mechanics will never be out of a job to correct the errors. Life is the reversal of entropy, by increasing complex order
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07-05-2012, 08:02 PM | #42 |
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Humans make errors too and the machinery that makes humans is certainly subject to random mutation and natural selection. Also species do go extinct (which is pretty much the only scenario that "safe" Von Neuman machines could evolve).
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07-05-2012, 08:04 PM | #43 |
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Ahhhhh, no, not in the slightest. Life exists by increasing the disorder of the universe.
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07-05-2012, 08:08 PM | #44 |
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All spontaneous processes increase the total entropy of the universe. That's the profound bit of the Second Law. Biological processes cheat by using solar energy to make processes spontaneous that otherwise wouldn't be (by making the up for the difference in free energy between the reactants and the products).
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07-05-2012, 08:47 PM | #45 | |
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Its several years or several months. That is a long time for being able to check and seeing if you have extra factories. Although its stupidly fast on the economic side of things. If it made errors the chance of the very first error being a mutant self-replicating doom factory is about 0. Plus having a much better understanding of TL 10 tech than us I think its safe to assume they'll know if mutant doom factories are a risk. So if there is any danger they'll just check it. |
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07-05-2012, 09:24 PM | #48 | |
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Even a colony of religious enthusiasts who believe contraception immoral is subject to two rules: regression to the mean, and "cultures always change." Their children will be less enthusiastic than their parents because they weren't specially selected for enthusiasm, and their great-grandchildren will believe all kinds of different things and adapt their behaviour (like how many children they have) to local conditions.
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07-06-2012, 09:29 PM | #50 |
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Housing is cheap. Labor is at a premium. The Empire/Megacorps/Council of Holy Leaders wants to increase the number of settlers and will pay in cash or prestige if need be.
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