E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

Complete integration aids the spread of the detrimental effects of viral activity and thus making a more homogeneous population more susceptible to eradication.

In the world where there is no catastrophic events, singularity may be possible, plausable and even profitable. But, not so with the world where terribly bad things can happen. Sub-optimization keeps the problems from spreading quite as rapidly or from affecting everyone in the same fashion.

While the technological evolution can assist us in designing systems that copy the best of cockroach DNA (the ability to have many very rapidly made copies of DNA which insure rapid mutation of the species and thus make them almost impossible to exterminate) I am not convinced that this will be sufficient for the preservation of the species.