I think it's kinda like an intermittent bug in some application. Like a "stable" civilization? Sometimes I wonder if clouds of autonomous self replicators, su

I think it's kinda like an intermittent bug in some application. Like a "stable" civilization? Sometimes I wonder if clouds of autonomous self replicators, such as our planet and our civilization, aren't viewed as atavistic exponential pests by godlike alien beings who control the entire resources of a civilization in one entity.