dclayh comments on Extraterrestrial paperclip maximizers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 August 2010 10:49:02PM 11 points [-]

Then it would've been trivial to leave at least one nanomachine and a radio detector in every solar system, which is all it takes to wipe out any incipient civilizations shortly after their first radio broadcast.

Comment author: dclayh 09 August 2010 06:41:45AM 3 points [-]

Wow, one could write a story about a civilization of beings who find coherent radio-frequency radiation extremely painful (for instance), because of precisely this artificial selection.