Lumifer comments on Open thread, September 8-14, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 September 2014 06:37:15PM 3 points [-]

This question is taking a few extra steps beyond that, even.

Oh, sure, it's much more of a flight-of-fantasy question than a realistic one. An invitation to consider the tactical benefits of bombarding galaxies with black holes accelerated to a high fraction of c, maybe X-D

But the original impetus was the curiosity about the status of intelligent aliens for a FAI mathematically proven to be friendly to humans.