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kleinbl00  ·  4337 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase in the Evolution of the Universe

Your lines of reasoning were formalized by Martyn J Fogg in 1987 as the "Interdict Hypothesis."

The short version was published in Analog and the long version in Icarus.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00191035879...





theadvancedapes  ·  4337 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks so much for linking that! I'm going to read it tomorrow.

kleinbl00  ·  4337 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Presuming you've got the login. I read the Analog article when it was new; it made a lot of sense at the time. I don't know of many scholarly articles that cite Analog.