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We're just optimizing (generally quite well, I might add) for genetic survival.

• NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
  Ian Banks did a really amazing exposition of this where the Culture was rallying to stamp out reproducing nanites and they had to be stopped because if not they'd literally turn the whole universe into copies of themselves. One of the human characters mused that isn't that what all life is trying to do? I think it was in the Hydrogen Sonata, but I'm not sure.
  • taneq 5y ago
    Yes! I often find myself thinking of organisms as 'hegemonising swarms.'