The goal is more like turning the easy-to-reach matter and energy into computers and von-Neumann probes that will turn less-easy-to-reach matter and energy into computers and von-Neumann probes in an unending cycle [...]
It sounds rather like what evolution would give us by default—what I call “God’s utility function”, after Richard Dawkins, 1992 - though he didn’t quite get it right.
It sounds rather like what evolution would give us by default—what I call “God’s utility function”, after Richard Dawkins, 1992 - though he didn’t quite get it right.