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Wow, another thing Stanislaw Lem beat the scientists to. In "Imaginary Magnitude", the "Golem XIV" chapter, Lem has his superintelligences disappear up their o
by bediger4000 4y ago
Wow, another thing Stanislaw Lem beat the scientists to.
In "Imaginary Magnitude", the "Golem XIV" chapter, Lem has his superintelligences disappear up their own metaphorical navels, for their own incomprehensible-to-humans reasons. Of course, you can read between the lines about why the Golems disappeared, but "Do Nothing, Eventually" sounds like a good description.
- BillSaysThis 4y agoIain Banks' Culture stories have the same. Of course, Lem wrote earlier, not trying to make any claim otherwise.
- kesterallen 4y agoLarry Niven also did a riff on this in "The Schumann Computer," one of the Draco Tavern stories.
- nobody9999 4y ago>Wow, another thing Stanislaw Lem beat the scientists to. >In "Imaginary Magnitude", the "Golem XIV" chapter, Lem has his superintelligences disappear up their own metaphorical navels, for their own incomprehensible-to-humans reasons. Of course, you can read between the lines about why the Golems disappeared, but "Do Nothing, Eventually" sounds like a good description. While a bit different from the scenario presented (by TFA and Lem), such a "superintelligence" might get caught up in a singular (or set) of question(s) that dominate its consciousness until the heat-death of the universe. Asimov's The Last Question comes to mind, although the intelligence there is prompted by humans rather than posing such a question itself. That said, it's at least as plausible as TFA and Lem, IMHO. [0] http://www.thelastquestion.net/ http://www.thelastquestion.net/