Gavin comments on Resolving the Fermi Paradox: New Directions - Less Wrong

12 Post author: jacob_cannell 18 April 2015 06:00AM

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Comment author: Gavin 20 April 2015 04:46:02AM 0 points [-]

It would be very unusual indeed if the element distributions over optimal computronium exactly matched that of typical solar system.

But if it were not the optimal computronium, but the easiest to build computroniom, it would be made up of whatever was available in the local area.

Comment author: jacob_cannell 20 April 2015 04:56:25AM 0 points [-]

Yes - and that is related to my point - the configuration will depend on the matter in the system and the options at hand, and the best development paths are unlikely to turn all of the matter into computronium.