Reminds me of the Marshall McLuhan quote from 1964, "Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to

Reminds me of the Marshall McLuhan quote from 1964, "Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms." It's easy to interpret McLuhan as applying to the present because of the generality of his statements, but it's possible that's because they're also about something very essential. It's kind of funny to think about how some distant AGI that operated over a non-living compute substrate on universe-size time scales could use lifeforms to evolve and produce things that would eventually speak-to and extend its reach.