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Arthur C Clarke wrote a story which contains the same core conceit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_(short_story) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusa
by scandox 6y ago
Arthur C Clarke wrote a story which contains the same core conceit:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_(short_story) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_(short_story)
Edit: I see the wikipedia page does a poor job of describing the story. The essence is that a silicon, cold intelligence cannot believe intelligence could develop in carbon in relatively high temperatures. It decides that the meat intelligences are oppressing the silicon intelligences they have created and launches a crusade.
- pronoiac 6y agoIt's in "The collected stories of Arthur C. Clarke," which is at OpenLibrary - https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14931719W/The_collected_stories_of_Arthur_C._Clarke?edition=collectedstories00clar https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14931719W/The_collected_stor... . I just borrowed that book for an hour to read it. Fun note: the three quadrillion bits of information mentioned works out to be around 400 terabytes.
- HeWhoLurksLate 6y agoDang, I know someone with 400TB's of storage in their basement. Kinda crazy when you think about the fact that those super exaggerated figures from classic sci-fi are attainable with some effort nowadays.
- unnouinceput 6y ago400 TB is within everyone's grasp nowadays. My HDD is 6 TB and costed me $80. Granted is 5400 rpm, hence the low price but buy 67 of them and it costs only $5360. I mean I pay more rent in 12 months.
- mercer 6y ago> I mean I pay more rent in 12 months. if you don't I wanna live where you live.
- unnouinceput 6y agowelcome to the shithole country of Romania then. The only thing that is good here is internet speed and women are beautiful. rest is crap.