Carl writes:
>... as long
>as there is one radio reciever connected to a universal assembler and a
>power supply left operating, it could be colonized by a more patient
>replicator willing to live on the leavings. And the second-wave replicator
>could travel by radio, and thus easily keep up with the frontier. All the
>second-wave replicator has to do is induce the frontier replicator to leave
>a tiny fraction of the oasis unused.
The question is: what can this second wave have to offer to induce the
frontier
to leave these resouces? News about technological innovations? And is there
a way to implement the deal, ensuring that the news can only be decoded if
an oasis has actually created the requested replicator?
Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
RWJF Health Policy Scholar, Sch. of Public Health 510-643-1884
140 Warren Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 FAX: 510-643-8614
Received on Tue Dec 16 18:13:13 1997
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