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I doubt any civilizations capable of robotic interstellar travel would consider unleashing a Replicator-esque paper clip maximizer into the universe a worthwhil
by akiselev 4y ago
I doubt any civilizations capable of robotic interstellar travel would consider unleashing a Replicator-esque paper clip maximizer into the universe a worthwhile pursuit.
- eru 4y agoCivilisations don't consider anything a worthwhile pursuit, because Civilisations don't consider anything as anything in the first place. Civilisations don't make choices or act. Individuals do. Already there's plenty of humans who do all kinds of weird things. In an interstellar future there will be orders of magnitudes more beings and thanks to light lag, no means of asserting overarching central authority.